s lieing again!
Posted on 01/23/2005 10:02:57 AM PST by SandRat
After accusing Secretary of State nominee Condoleezza Rice of trafficking in "falsehoods" during hearings last week before the Sen. Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Barbara Boxer is the new hero of the Howard Dean-Michael Moore wing of the Democratic Party.
However it appears that Boxer may have indulged in a few falsehoods of her own while questioning Dr. Rice.
To justify her tough grilling, the Golden State Democrat repeatedly invoked war casualties from her home state, saying they amounted to 25 percent of the 1,400 GI's killed in the fighting. But after checking with the website Casualties.org, OpinionJournal.com says that's not true. "The number of California servicemen who've died is 157, which is about 11.5% of the total, less than half the proportion Boxer claimed," they noted.
The Marin County demagogue also had her facts wrong when she claimed her fellow Senators voted to authorize the Iraq war based solely on Bush administration claims about weapons of mass destruction.
In fact, the Senate's Iraq war resolution also cited Saddam's "brutal repression of its civilian population thereby threatening international peace and security in the region," and its refusal "to release, repatriate, or account for non-Iraqi citizens wrongfully detained by Iraq, including an American serviceman, and by failing to return property wrongfully seized by Iraq from Kuwait."
s lieing again!
BUMP!
Boxer lying?
I'm shocked, truly shocked!
Glad you dug this up, but I'm personally not surprised.
Boxer is ripe for the daschle treatment after this term...
Bump
How can you question the breathless sincerity of the little girl voice? Straight from the Valley Mall, via New Yawk?
It's ok for her to lie because she is after a greater good. /sarcasm
Ms. Boxer:
See You Next Tuesday.
Pray for W and Our Troops
I'm sure this fact about Boxer's false figures will be all over my Boston Globe tomorrow morning----(sarcasm intended)
Wasn't Senator Joseph McCarthy hounded out of office over exageration?
Zogbyism, the leftist McCarthyism continues unchallenged.
"1,400 GI's killed in the fighting"
This is a lie too unless the word "fighting" has been redefined.
Oh wait, no brain cells to function.
s were the same then as now in many respects.
"Iraq made commitments after the Gulf War to completely dismantle all weapons of mass destruction, and unfortunately, Iraq has not lived up to its agreement." -- Barbara Boxer, November 8, 2002
Media Schadenfreude and Media Shenanigans PING
I only wish that were so........but she is so much out on the fringe with her buddy Pelosi that I fear she has just lost her marbles with all the hate she spews......I would only hope that some of the non activist Dems in Calif would wise up and not vote for her.......Feinstein is not that bad compared to her.
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