??I believe it is appropriate to have an 'over-representation' of the facts on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience." These are the words of Green Guru Al Gore, as his rationale for lying about the threat of global warming.
Hillary Clinton described her trip to Bosnia during the Presidential primaries as, "I remember landing under sniper fire." Videotape of the arrival show her strolling off the plane in a leisurely manner. Her response was an Orwellian masterpiece . "I did misspeak the other day. This has been a very long campaign. Occasionally, I am a human being like everybody else....I have written about it in my book and talked about it on many other occasions and last week, you know, for the first time in 12 or so years I misspoke."
On March 25, 2004 President Bush stated ??Had I known that the enemy was going to use airplanes to strike America, to attack us. I would have used very resource, every asset, every power of this government to protect the American people. ? Bush received an August 6, 2001 CIA memo entitled ??Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S. ? which mentioned bin Laden's desire and capability to strike the US possibly using hijacked airplanes. The CIA warned that bin Laden will launch an attack against the US and/or Israel in the coming weeks that ??will be spectacular and designed to inflict mass casualties against US facilities or interests. ? The President lied because the truth would have made him look like a fool whose disregard for intelligence led to the deaths of 2,974 Americans. Dick Cheney takes every opportunity to go on TV and proclaim that he kept America safe since 9/11 with his Gestapo like tactics. Not good enough Dick. Three thousand Americans died on your watch Dick. You knew who, what, how and when and you did nothing Dick. You are an incompetent, lying fool.
"This man poses a much graver threat than anybody could have possibly imagined. The Iraqi regime is a threat of unique urgency. . . . It has developed weapons of mass death." President Bush spoke these immortal words in September 2002. When a President uses words like grave, threat and death, you would think we are about to be attacked. These statements were untrue. Only after the fact, did Bush and his neo-con cronies ??adjust ? the facts to support their attack of a sovereign country. Democracy in the Middle East anyone?
??We had intelligence reporting before the war that there were at least seven of these mobile labs that he had gone out and acquired. We've, since the war, found two of them. They're in our possession today, mobile biological facilities that can be used to produce anthrax or smallpox or whatever else you wanted to use during the course of developing the capacity for an attack. ? Dick Cheney will go to his grave lying to the American public. He told Meet the Press in September, 2003 that we had found biological facilities. This was a lie. The CIA's Duelfer's Report Iraq concluded that Iraq HAD NO WMD's and unilaterally destroyed its undeclared chemical weapons stockpile in 1991. There are no credible indications that Baghdad resumed production of chemical munitions thereafter. In spite of exhaustive investigation, ISG found no evidence that Iraq possessed, or was developing Biological warfare agent product systems mounted on road vehicles or railway wagons. ?
In February 2003, a few weeks before the Iraq invasion began, then-Army Chief of Staff Gen. Eric Shinseki told Congress that "Something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers ... would be required" to stabilize postwar Iraq. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz rejected this claim, insisting that he was "reasonably certain that they [the Iraqis] will greet us as liberators, and that will help us to keep [troop] requirements down." Rumsfeld shared Wolfowitz's optimism. Rumsfeld said the post-war troop commitment would be less than the number of troops required to win the war. He also said ??the idea that it would take several hundred thousand U.S. forces, I think, is far from the mark. ? It would have been highly inconvenient to tell the truth right before the invasion. It was much easier to have Shinseki ??retire ? .
??We are finding terrorists and bringing them to justice. We are gathering information about where the terrorists may be hiding. We are trying to disrupt their plots and plans. Anything we do ... to that end in this effort, any activity we conduct, is within the law. We do not torture." It appears that President Bush's definition of torture differs from the United Nations convention on torture signed by Ronald Reagan:
For the purposes of this Convention, the term "torture" means any act by which severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, is intentionally inflicted on a person for such purposes as obtaining from him or a third person information or a confession, punishing him for an act he or a third person has committed or is suspected of having committed, or intimidating or coercing him or a third person, or for any reason based on discrimination of any kind, when such pain or suffering is inflicted by or at the instigation of or with the consent or acquiescence of a public official or other person acting in an official capacity. It does not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to lawful sanctions.
Bush and Cheney contend that water-boarding was not torture. Post World War II war crimes tribunalsfound that Japanese soldiers engaging in water-boarding and the officers who approved it were guilty of war crimes. The ends do not justify the means.
The Bush administration sold its Medicare prescription drug plan to conservatives in Congress as having a cost of $400 billion over ten years, enabling it to narrowly win passage in December 2003. The White House knew the costs were $551 billion - more than 25% higher. The administration threatened to fire Medicare's top financial analyst (Richard Foster) if he released the information. Two months after the President signed the law, the administration revised its costs estimates to $534 billion. Our fiscally responsible President also failed to mention that his new plan created an $8 TRILLION unfunded liability, larger than the Social Security unfunded liability.
"So I analyzed that and decided I didn't want to be the president during a depression greater than the Great Depression, or the beginning of a depression greater than the Great Depression. I've abandoned free market principles to save the free market system." These remarks by George Bush in December 2008 prove that he is either a fool, a coward, or a liar. Take your choice.
"When there is a bill that ends up on my desk as the president, you the public will have five days to look online and find out what's in it before I sign it." President Obama made this promise during the campaign. I do not recall having the opportunity to peruse the $787 billion stimulus bill online before Barack put his John Hancock on this pork filled travesty. Hundreds of ??crucial projects ? were added at 3:00 am the morning it was passed. This is what passes for transparency in Washington DC.
"I am in this race to tell the corporate lobbyists that their days of setting the agenda in Washington are over. I have done more than any other candidate in this race to take on lobbyists ?? and won. They have not funded my campaign, they will not run my White House, and they will not drown out the voices of the American people when I am president." This is quite an amusing campaign ??promise ? , considering there are 15,000 lobbyists crawling around Washington DC like cockroaches spending $3.3 billion ??not influencing ? our honorable members of Congress. The truth is that lobbyists wrote the $787 billion stimulus bill. The voices of the American people were 10 to 1 against the bill.
President Obama issued a 14 page report on January 11, 2009 geared to sell his $787 billion stimulus plan. The report promised to CREATE (not create or save) 3,675,000 jobs in the next two years. He declared that if his package was not passed it would be catastrophe for the country, with 2 million more job losses and double digit unemployment. According to the BLS, there were 11.6 million Americans unemployed in January 2009. At the end of August, there were 14.9 million Americans unemployed. By my math, that is 3.3 million job losses since the stimulus package was rammed down our throats using fear tactics and lies. Of course, Barack the Magnificent has recently stated, "We began by passing a Recovery Act that has already saved or created over 150,000 jobs and provided a tax cut to 95% of all working families." He must subscribe to the Joseph Goebbels School of Lying Journal. The bigger the lie, the more likely the masses are to believe it. I'll be waiting for Obama to post the results on his website. He only needs to create 7 million jobs in the next 16 months.
"I happen to be a proponent of single-payer universal healthcare coverage. That's what I'd like to see." These were Barack Obama's words while campaigning for Senate in 2003. At the 2008 Presidential debate, Obama stated: ??I never said that we should try to go ahead and get single-payer (healthcare)." I wonder what he believes now.
Obama makes the following declarations regarding his healthcare plan:
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