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By now, with the Conventions over, the debates begun, and assorted right-wing bozos whirling like dervishes trying to control the damage the Kerry/Edwards/Kerry II one-two-three debate combination has caused in the last week or so, we should be used to the plethora of lies that routinely emanate from the pie-holes of both the moron Bush and his evil sidekick Cheney.

Of course, you can always count on the practically bottomless ignorance of avowed Bush supporters and other pinheaded intellectual ne’er-do-wells to make the informed, thoughtful, and un-brainwashed among us scratch our heads and wonder if we even live on the same planet.

Here are some of the more of the most persistent BushCo myths:

Myth #1: That the world and America are safer without Saddam

Since Saddam never posed a threat to anybody except the whispering voices inside George Bush’s head, his removal has not improved the world one iota (I won’t pick the nit that Saddam’s removal was never BushCo’s rationale for war). Indeed, things are much worse. There are more acts of terrorism being sponsored world-wide than ever before and more innocent Iraqis and American soldiers dying every day. Bush, the drunken sailor, has practically bankrupted the country by spending hundreds of billions of our hard-earned and much-needed money on his Iraq misadventure while spending nary a dime ensuring our seaports and our chemical and nuclear plants are being satisfactorily protected.

Meanwhile, as the bodies continue to pile up in Iraq, BushCo’s negligence has America nice and ripe for another devastating attack (I can see Bush’s minions practically praying for one).

Myth #2: That the intelligence on Iraq was flawed

Sorry, guys, but it was never the intelligence that was flawed; it was always the desperate cherry-pickers in the Administration tapped to make the intelligence conform to their already-laid plans to invade Iraq who were flawed. Scott Ritter and the others at UNSCOM were all right.

BushCo’s spin touts that all the intelligence from every pertinent agency was telling them Iraq’s weapons were seconds away from being finished and launched, threatening the new reality TV season.

In fact, there was infinitely more evidence telling them Iraq had nothing; no weapons, no intentions, no capability. But, BushCo is nothing if not the sworn enemy of facts, truth, and responsibility-taking. The intelligence was dead-on; they just completely ignored it because it wasn’t what they wanted to hear.

Myth #3: That a vote for Kerry is a vote for terrorism

This one was brought out in classic Orwellian Newspeak recently when Real President Cheney implied the terrorists were just waiting for Kerry to be elected so they would then have free rein throughout the world; Kerry being too much of a over-intellectual, spineless, French pussy to fight them.

One question: Why would the terrorists want to see anyone else in control of America when Bush’s ass-backwards policies are playing right into their hands? Bush has almost single-handedly united the Muslim world against America, has fomented anti-American hate to the point where al-Qaeda has a suicide-bomber waiting list, and has spread a palpable fear among American citizens that is so divisive, half of them can’t see past the wall of lies BushCo has meticulously built.

Isn’t that exactly what terrorists want? For us to be afraid? Suspicious?

Distrustful? Divided? Gullible? Willing to give up liberty for safety?

It’s votes for Bush, not Kerry, that green-light the terrorist’s gleeful planning of the next big assault on America.

Myth #4: That Bush is a good debater

Ok, everybody say this one with me…‘Bush is NOT a good debater’. How someone who can barely string two sentences together meaningfully can be a good debater could be the question of this election year. I watch Bush and wonder if English is his second language. I hear him answer debate questions with ramblings that border on the incoherent.

Perhaps his fawning sycophants in the ‘liberal’ media are impressed by the way he wows crowds on the campaign trail. That these crowds are interviewed and screened to assure no-one with a brain (or a Kerry button) gains access appears to play little to no part in right-wing pundits’ collective ‘reasoning’.

Thanks to Bush’s complete inability to take criticism, Kerry crushed the life out of him in the first debate. So bad was the drubbing, Bushies claimed preemptive victory in the second debate providing their guy’s head didn’t turn beet red and explode onstage or that he stayed awake or wasn’t caught drooling. Sadly, ‘Blinky’ Bush was so intent on sublimating his anger, it manifested itself in odd mannerisms and meaningless responses.

Just another loss in a long line of Bush failures.

Myth #5: That election polls are meaningful

Fuck the polls. That’s right, you heard me. Fuck the polls; don’t pay any attention to them. Anyone who does should be ashamed of themselves. Of course, the media would like us to believe that polls are meaningful for then their trumpeting of the ‘results’ would constitute their reporting something important. But not only are the polls rigged to make sure the election always appears to be nice and close (who’d watch CNN if it were a landslide?), they also don’t include new voters, returning voters, or voters whose primary phone is a cell. With so many left out of the mix, the polls become just another game that Big Media plays trying to convince people that they’re actually doing their jobs when they are, in fact, grossly incompetent.

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BushCo tells so many lies and so often distorts the truth beyond recognition that myth debunking in the fantasyland called Bushworld could be full-time job. With any luck, on November 2, all Bush myth debunkers will be out of work.

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