Smoldering heap of nonsense - Salt Lake Tribune

[kpete]

Blumner: Pathological lies in the name of national security
By Robyn Blumner
Salt Lake Tribune Media Services

President Bush once famously stumbled over the phrase ''Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.'' It was a Freudian slip. Bush knew just how often he's put one over on the American people. Why rub it in?

Slowly this country has come to the realization that nothing the president and his minions say is believable, yet they still want us to just trust them. There hasn't been a more dangerous combination of incompetence, mendacity and arrogance since Lansford Hastings encouraged the Donner Party to diverge from the Oregon trail and take his ''shortcut.''

Bush recently dropped a whopper by telling veteran journalist Helen Thomas that he never wanted to go to war, even as insider memos keep popping up detailing Bush's early intention to attack Iraq. But nowhere has the bald-faced lying been as fierce as in the ''war on terror.'' Here, Bush has raised prevarication to national policy. From the president's disingenuous proclamations that all prisoners are treated ''humanely'' to the administration's laughable claim that it couldn't disclose the names of those swept into detention after 9/11 because it would violate their right to privacy, there is nothing this crew won't say to avoid accountability.
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If there is one consistent theme running through Bush's war on terror, it is that the administration's public claims turn out to be a smoldering heap of nonsense. Yet for some reason we keep buying it. Shame on us.

http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_3696499

[shenmue]

1. Good call

That's the truth.

[Saphire]

2. agreed, shame on us.

[ovidsen]

3. "Blue" storm rising!

If this is what people are thinking in Utah, truly one of the reddist of "Red" states, then there is hope for the USA.

[helderheid]

4. you should see the opinion cartoon

[B3Nut]

12. ROFLMAO!!!! n/t

[helderheid]

13. ain't it great??

[Chomp]

14. KICK

For the op-ed piece and for that absolutely fantastic cartoon.

[ToeBot]

9. Hope? Maybe when The Deseret News starts running similar op/ed's,

The Trib is a 'gentile' newspaper and even though it's owned by MediaNews Group, it's still considered liberal.

[HereSince1628]

5. So what percentage of Deseret believes the SLTrib?

Just wondering. The mormon states have been something of a bastion for Bush.

[helderheid]

6. I think we're around 50/50 approve/disapprove

[wryter2000]

7. Amazing

K&R :wow:

[helderheid]

8. few known facts about Utah:

Salt Lake City Mayor Rocky Anderson (D) extremely liberal was the keynote speaker at the anti-Bush rally which drew over 3000 protestors.

Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon (D) is Howard Dean's 1st cousin

Salt Lake City one of the most progressive cities in the nation

I say LET'S HAVE A DU CONVENTION HERE!

[Peace Patriot]

10. I've had it with this "red state"/"blue state" stuff.

80% of the nations votes in 2004 were "counted" by two rightwing Bushite corporations, Diebold and ES&S, using "TRADE SECRET," PROPRIETARY programming code with virtually no audit/recount controls, in an election system designed as a $4 billion electronic voting boondoggle by the two biggest crooks in Congress, Tom Delay and Bob Ney.

We DON'T KNOW how anybody voted.

The election system is NON-TRANSPARENT, not to mention corrupt. You think Tom Delay ever uses $4 billion of OUR money to promote democracy? Har, har on us!

You may be sitting next to MANY Kerry voters--in a diner, at the movies, in the doctor's office--and you don't even know it. And you thought you were in Utah!

[helderheid]

11. Utah used paper ballots last election. Not anymore though :( I will

vote absentee

[Cleita]

15. Although Salt Lake City is more liberal than the rest of Utah,

the tribune still is read statewide so they have to keep their readership in mind. It's good to see that a red state is starting to call this administration on its bullshit.

[helderheid]

17. the Trib has been pretty good. They also reported on the roses for Helen

campaign.

[sellitman]

16. " A smoldering heap of nonsense"

yep...that about sums them up in a nut shell.

A festering smoldering heap of nonsense works too.