The Next Time You Say, 'Bush Lied, People Died' -- Think

Townhall.com ^ | August 7, 2008 | Larry Elder

[marron]

Its a mystery to me. I thought at the time, why would they deny what had already been found? Whose interest does it serve? Who has that power?

And I don’t have an answer. I really don’t.

Remember when CIA reported that there was no uranium smuggling in Africa? Right after that, Libya surrendered and part of what they gave up was their yellow-cake. Half of it was older stuff they had smuggled in from Niger years before, and then admitted to and documented. The other half they smuggled in more recently... from Niger, again, and never told anyone about.

No one in the press ever asked, if there is no yellowcake smuggling in Niger, how did Nigerienne yellowcake get to Libya? There is occasionally an astonishing lack of curiousity in the press, and it was CIA’s own WMD division that was claiming that Niger didn’t do contraband. And that Bush was lying about it. You’ll remember the whole story, but no one ever asked about Libya.

And Bush never mentioned it, not even to defend himself, not even when he was on the edge of losing an election over it.

Bush and Cheney have taken a tremendous pounding over the decision to invade Iraq, there is no connection to Bin Ladin ad nauseaum. But its not a secret that the first World Trade Center attack was led by guys arriving from Baghdad, who then escaped back to Baghdad. Its not a secret, but its also not talked about. And the cousin of the guy who led the first attack led the second attack on 911, but there is no connection. None at all. If you mention it, you’re delusional. Just get it out of your mind.

There are people who want to impeach Bush over the Iraq war. And yet he never defends himself. He just keeps taking care of business but never says a word. Its a mystery to me.

[fr_freak]

I haven’t paid for ONE single film of Will Ferrell. Not even one. Axxo uploaded Semi Pro and Blades of Glory on bittorrent so I DL’d it, and Talladega Nights was a gift for Christmas. He’s the most overrated comic in Hollywood aside from Ben Stiller and the worst “comic” movie this year was Semi Pro. God, how can this untalented hack get those roles?

That becomes obvious if you observe the lefties for a while. The truth is that, not only have they lost the ability to see beauty, they actually loathe beautiful things. They have the obsession with defiling anything pure or beautiful. TV and movies are nothing but non-stop "deconstruction" of society's pillars, marriage, family, love, people, the suburbs, the country, etc.. They ridicule good people and promote criminals and thugs (NFL, NBA, etc.). They spit on stories of heroism and embrace the amoral anti-hero. They scoff at Michelangelo but exalt piss-christ. They sneer at Shakespeare as a "dead white male" and recite rap lyrics. They simply detest the good, the pure and the beautiful. Once you understand that, it is easy to see how idiots like Ferrel keep making movies.

[TigersEye]

The Next Time You Say, ‘Bush Lied, People Died’ — Think ... 550 metric tonnes of yellow cake uranium.

[karnage]

“... Bush will eventually be ranked with Lincoln and Roosevelt among our greatest presidents...”

I agree 100%.

[SunkenCiv]

SNL pinheads interviewed on NPR.

[Impy]

Bush going to sleep at night caused people to die?

[driftless2]

Like Robin Williams I’ve never found anything remotely funny in anything Will Ferrell has done. Williams at least is not too bad as a serious actor. Ferrell is just lame.

[Erik Latranyi]

Fact: Democrats voted in favor of war with Iraq
Fact: The American people supported war with Iraq
Fact: Iraq did not comply with UN mandates
Fact: Iraq was shooting at our jets in the no-fly zone

These are irrefutable facts.

When the going got tough in Iraq, Democrats wanted to run.

[kellynla]

BTTT

[Tax-chick]

Here's a Guinness for using "contemporaneous":

[Lou L]

He’s the most overrated comic in Hollywood aside from Ben Stiller and the worst “comic” movie this year was Semi Pro.

While I thought Ferrell had some good skits and characters on SNL, his movies have been terrible. All the genuine humor in a 90-minute movie could be condensed into 5 minutes. All his characters are the same. He's this generation's Robin Williams.

[astounded]

Don’t forget Ansar al Islaam, an al Qaeda offshoot that fled from Afghanistan to set up shop in the hills of northeast Iraq after the US Afghanistan incursion in 2001. US Special Forces fought a little-publicized pitched battle against this group in April 2003, taking down their installation and routing them. This belies the MSM view that there “was no al Qaeda in Iraq before the US incursion”. That is an outright lie that too many people in the USA believe out fo Bush Hatred.

[Ramius]

Mmmmm... Guinness...

I’d have used more big words if’n I’d known it paid in beer. :-)

[Tax-chick]

Positive behaviors should be rewarded.

[Cinnamon Girl]

The Next Time You Say, ‘Bush Lied, People Died’, somebody should punch you in the face.

[Liberty Valance]

"When the going got tough in Iraq, Democrats wanted to run."

They still want to run. Further, they want to demonize the President and what few Patriots are still around in DC and the rest of the country. The only reason they haven't tried their best to impeach the President is that every democrat that voted for this war would have to go too. Instead they decided to pull their panties up over their faces and go back on their word like the worthless cowards we know them to be. Most of Hollywood's politically naive "Stars" are just trying to give them cover for their cowardice and political expediency.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Time for another “Mom, Apple Pie, and the Ghost of Quagmires Past”?

[marron]

Somebody needs to write this stuff down. A lot of it has been successfully flushed down the old memory hole, though, I don’t know if you could find links for some of this stuff, it happened, and then its like some kind of collective amnesia. We all agree to agree that it never happened.

I wonder then about history, how it ever can approach truth. I know what a high percentage of what we read in the press is bogus, a very high percentage. But if I were going to write a history about a particular era or event, the first thing anyone would do, would be to read the press accounts at the time, and that would form the starting point for your history. And yet I know that, at least these days, most of what I read in the papers is false. So how does any historian have a chance of ever getting it right, even if they want to?

I guess he has the advantage of knowing how it all turned out in the end, but it seems even that gets passed through a kaleidoscope lens sometimes.

[Verginius Rufus]

Is Jane Mayer the same person who leaked the sealed information about Linda Tripp's arrest (for a piece in The New Yorker, I think)? That was during the height of the Clinton Administration's war on Linda Tripp--the arrest had happened because she was the victim of a prank by "friends" who swiped something and put it in her purse without her knowledge.

If the Clintonistas had devoted half the energy to fighting Islamofascists as they did to attacking people like Linda Tripp and Ken Starr, the 9/11 attacks would never have happened.

C-SPAN the other day gave air time to Vincent Bugliosi to publicize his book.

[ridesthemiles]

IMO, Will Farrell has a 14 year old mind and he is stuck in that time frame.
He is also stuck on stupid on the overall safety of this country.