The most blatant lie last night--"al-qaeda in Iraq"

[bunkerbuster1]

Best estimates I have seen give this organization's strength among the Iraq insurgency at between five and seven percent. If you were to listen (and yeah, I did, rather closely) to the President's words last night, you'd think this was the only foe our troops had to face.

This is so bloody typical of the Administration's lying. No, it's not a flat-out falsehood and there's the usual built-in plausible deniability of deception; after all, there is this organization calling itself al-qaeda in Iraq (although only God knows why they actually call themselves this—CIA ops, anyone?) and they are involved.

But al-qaeda are NOT the 9.11 conspirators (despite what Ari Fleisher's TeeVee ads would have you believe), and what's more, there's little reason to believe they’d be welcome among the Iraqi insurgents themselves if not for our presence there.

I heard a lot of BS last night, but grotesquely over-inflating this small group's influence had to be the most disgusting, repulsive, and insulting rhetoric Bush deployed. To me, that ought to be the focus of our criticism, because if you can't even correctly identify the enemy, how on earth can you defend the mission?

[frogcycle]

1. ding ding ding

spot on

[bunkerbuster1]

2. I should add--I really wish more folks would point this out.

Biden mentioned it BEFORE Bush's address on MSNBC last night, but nobody said boo afterwards.

It's so easily discredited, and it just sinks a dagger into the heart of their bogus arguments for continuing to keep combat troops in the meat grinder.

[Virginia Dare]

3. Who is this war really benefitting?

Radical muslim extremists (aka "Al-Qaeda"), and those factions in Iraq who are closely allied with Iran. Not to mention the war profiteers in this country, closely allied with the Bush/Cheney administration. Both have achieved tremendous success in the course of this war. Kind of sounds like maybe they would have a lot to gain by working together, doesn't it?..:think:

[bunkerbuster1]

4. Good points, but it's speculative criticism.

I agree fully--I think it's entirely possible there are factions within Iran who were working back channels to get us to invade Iraq in the first place, for example.

But to get back to the point: Bush is flat-out lying (without "lying," in that passive-aggressive way that these bastards have down pat) when he continues to claim that this thing supposedly calling itself "Al-Qaeda in Iraq" is doing the damage.

[Virginia Dare]

5. They can't correctly identify the enemy..

because in reality there IS NO ENEMY. There never was. This is all a made-up fantasy game that turned into reality. They keep having to sell the fairy tale over and over again. That's all they've got. Good versus evil. America's freedom vs. Al Qaeda. It's all fakery.