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acmavm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-11-04 11:39 AM
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Bush speaks of truth, but doesn't tell it
http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/tucker/index.html

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 04/11/2004

"We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators."

-- Vice President Dick Cheney, March 16, 2003

<snip>

As a candidate, President Bush pledged to restore integrity to the White House. Against the backdrop of President Clinton's repeated lies about a sordid adulterous affair, Bush ran on his claims to be a man of strong character -- a politician of plain speaking and straight talk. He wouldn't lie to us.

Yet, this administration has produced more dissembling and distortion, more fabrications and pseudo-facts than any White House in recent memory -- Richard Nixon's included. The Bushites lie brazenly and repeatedly, refusing to back down even when caught in the web of their own contradictions.

The falsehoods aren't limited to Iraq. In domestic policy Bush administration officials have shaded the truth, spread lies and even threatened underlings who believed in a moral obligation to honesty.

<snip>

But there is no area that better demonstrates the Orwellian quality of the Bush administration -- its insistence that black is white, up is down, war is peace -- than its deceptions about Iraq. Testimony under oath before the Sept. 11 commission and the Iraq uprising make increasingly clear that the central underpinning of the president's re-election campaign -- that he has conducted a tough-minded war on terror -- stands the truth on its head.

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Elidor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-11-04 11:52 AM
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1. It's great to see this in the corporate media
Edited on Sun Apr-11-04 11:53 AM by Hardhead
Especially in the AJC, who were always happy to paint Reagan (and to a lesser extent, Poppa Bush) in a good light. Making up for past sins, they are.

Edit: oops, I forgot to say, good article, too! Cynthia Tucker rocks. Call them liars again, Cynthia!
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GhengisKhan Donating Member (52 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-11-04 12:03 PM
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2. he just speaks in platitudes, rhetoric. maybe even believes it !
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