Michael Moore, Mumford are not the questions, but is Bush is a Liar, etc. is?

[Guest guest]

The words of Michael Moore or Mark Mumford are not really the core issue of

whether Bush is a liar, thief, cheat, etc. That is what never gets answered when

we focus on the messenger instead of the message. Is the message that Bush is

what many people are saying about his basic honesty or not is the only question

worth answering. F.

 

 

http://www.schlatter.org/Dad/Bush%20lies/bushlies_1.htm

 

Bush is a Liar

 

George W. Bush: Liar

 

 

President George W. Bush is a liar. It's not that,

from time to time, he " mispeaks. " It's not that he

has made campaign pledges that he did not exactly

keep. It's that he is a liar. His college career was

a lie; his business ventures were lies; his fortune --

the part he did not inherit -- was gained through

lies. His most egregious lies are those he told to

become president and the lies he continues to tell.

He lied to take this nation into a war that will kill

hundreds of young men, drain our treasury, and destroy

our credibility with much of the rest of the world.

His entire political program is a lie.

 

This website will chronicle and document the lies he

tells. I will post articles here 2 - 3 times each

week detailing George W. Bush's lies. Come back and

visit often to read about the latest lies.

 

Click here to go to the table of contents of George W.

Bush's lies.

 

Click here to go to a list of books about George W.

Bush's lies.

 

One of the best exposures of Bush's lies is the book

The Lies of George W. Bush, by David Corn. Here is

the opening of an article by Corn:

 

This article was adapted from the new book,

The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of

Deception (Crown Publishers).

 

George W. Bush is a liar. He has lied large

and small, directly and by omission. His Iraq lies

have loomed largest.

 

In the run-up to the invasion, Bush based his

case for war on a variety of unfounded claims that

extended far beyond his controversial

uranium-from-Niger assertion. He maintained that

Saddam Hussein possessed " a massive stockpile " of

unconventional weapons and was directly " dealing " with

Al Qaeda--two suppositions unsupported then (or now)

by the available evidence. He said the International

Atomic Energy Agency had produced a report in 1998

noting that Iraq was six months from developing a

nuclear weapon; no such report existed (and the IAEA

had actually reported then that there was no

indication Iraq had the ability to produce

weapons-grade material). Bush asserted that Iraq was

" harboring a terrorist network, headed by a senior Al

Qaeda terrorist planner " ; US intelligence officials

told reporters this terrorist was operating ouside of

Al Qaeda control. And two days before launching the

war, Bush said, " Intelligence gathered by this and

other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime

continues to possess and conceal some of the most

lethal weapons ever devised. " Yet former deputy CIA

director Richard Kerr, who is conducting a review of

the prewar intelligence, has said that intelligence

was full of qualifiers and caveats, and based on

circumstantial and inferential evidence. That is, it

was not no-doubt stuff. And after the major fighting

was done, Bush declared, " We found the weapons of mass

destruction. " But he could only point to two

tractor-trailers that the CIA and the Defense

Intelligence Agency had concluded were mobile

bioweapons labs. Other experts--including the DIA's

own engineering experts--disagreed with this finding.

 

But Bush's truth-defying crusade for war did

not mark a shift for him. Throughout his campaign for

the presidency and his years in the White House, Bush

has mugged the truth in many other areas to advance

his agenda. Lying has been one of the essential tools

of his presidency. To call the forty-third President

of the United States a prevaricator is not an exercise

of opinion, not an inflammatory talk-radio device.

Rather, it is backed up by an all-too-extensive record

of self-serving falsifications. While politicians are

often derided as liars, this charge should be

particularly stinging for Bush. During the campaign of

2000, he pitched himself as a candidate who could

" restore " honor and integrity to an Oval Office

stained by the misdeeds and falsehoods of his

predecessor. To brand Bush a liar is to negate what he

and his supporters declared was his most basic and

most important qualification for the job.

 

His claims about the war in Iraq have led more

of his foes and more pundits to accuse him of lying to

the public. The list of his misrepresentations,

though, is far longer than the lengthy list of dubious

statements Bush employed--and keeps on employing--to

justify his invasion and occupation of Iraq. Here then

is a partial--a quite partial--account of the other

lies of George W. Bush.

 

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