Bush is pathological liar -- my letter to the Deseret Morning News.

[Sean Reynolds]

Wrote it early this morning and they printed it in tomorrow's (well today's since it's past 12:00) paper.

Bush is pathological liar

While President Bush may try and portray John Kerry as a flip-flopper, I think it's quite clear that the president himself is a pathological liar.
President Bush hyped up the Iraq war on the belief that Saddam Hussein posed a great risk to the American people. What risk was Bush talking about? With the revelations that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction, I wonder how Saddam could have ever been a threat to the American people.
I think it's safe to say that Bush used fear as a tool to garner support for his unjust war. Sadly, it's quite obvious he doesn't see the error of his ways. During the first debate with Sen. Kerry, Bush made it clear that the Iraq war was justified for the security of American citizens. Well, last I checked those troops fighting in that war were American citizens, and so far he's not done his job at securing their safety. Over 1,000 Americans are dead thanks to this war. Yet the president continues to state Iraq was a threat, even when he acknowledges the fact that they had no means of being a threat, since there were no weapons of mass destruction.

Sean Reynolds
Salt Lake City

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595097041,00.html

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[ibegurpard]

1. Excellent, Comrade Reynolds!

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[aquart]

2. Good letter.

[Nicholas_J]

3. The one thing that the Kerry people miss about the Duelfer Report

surrounding tyhe Bush campaigns assertions that Hussein possesed the potential to make WMD's and the reports speculation that he desired to start up the programs again after the U.N. dropped sanctions (there is no evidence of any kind that they intended to do so, just speculation on the part of Duelfer) and finally the statements that Saddam was trying to bribe France, Germnay and Russia to drop the sanctions (more speculation, no direct evidence of any kind) has flaw that Kerry's campaign could drive a truck through.

That flaw:

The United States would have to vote along with the other members of the Security Council to stop the sanctions.

Given the facts that the sanctions obviously were working, and that while they were in place Saddam was not making WMD's and while he was being watched was not about to means that the United States could have spent its resources and efforts pursuing Osama Bin Laden and Al Qaeda, while keeping sanctions in place for as long as it took to capture Al Qaeda leaders and Bin Laden, and once that primary task had been accomplished, the U.S. could move with the U.N. to find some way of dealing with Iraq.

This argument alone completely destroys Bush argument that it was necessary to attack Iraq immediately, and of course his statements that the U.N. sanctions were not working are completely reduced to folly given the results of the Duelfer study regarding the actual existance of stockpiles of WMD's. They were not there and they erre not thee becasue U.N. sanctions prevented Saddam from getting the materials he needed to make them in quantities useful for military purposes. All the U.S. needed to do was to veto any resolution attempting to put an end to sanctions.


The U.S. is very, very active in vetoing resolution simply telling Israel to stop using excessive force in Palestinian areas, and this leads to Israel continuing as it pleases. Vetoing resolutions regarding cessation of sanctions on Iraq would be just as effective in keeping them in place.

If Kerry can make this point loufly and pblically, Bushs arguments about the need to go to war at the time he chose completely fall apart.

[kokomo]

4. Being a Bush means never having to say you are sorry!

Even Tony Blair can admit to making a mistake.

[KharmaTrain]

5. Immenent Threat!!!

Risk? He posed a Threat! Remember, he had those planes that would spray chemical weapons over our cities and bio-tipped skuds we knew were gonna rain down on Tel Aviv.

I wish someone would replay that ultra scary "press conference" right before the invasion where Bunnypants wratched up the fear factor on high and shock and awe was off and running.

A very well written letter, and please let us know if it's published.

[Sean Reynolds]

6. Thanks ya'all!