Posted on 03/23/2007 11:29:11 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
It's said to be Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels or Hitler himself who said, "If you tell a lie often enough, people will believe it."
Certain huge whoppers keep circulating, and they've been repeated so often, so insistently – and increasingly by people who should know better and probably do – that they are being accepted as fact. It's become so irritating to me that I feel I've got to shout: "Quit saying that! It's not so."
Someone else said famously, "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free"; and since I'm a fan of both freedom and truth, I want to set the record straight on certain things. Some now, and some next week.
First, "the president lied." Have you been hearing that a lot lately? Increasingly? Have you started to believe it? Well, it's not so – so truthful people should quit repeating it.
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All his opponents, and now even some on his own side of the aisle, are buying into the canard that the president of the United States knowingly fabricated an excuse to invade Iraq, saying that there were connections between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida and Osama bin Ladin, and that Saddam had and was developing weapons of mass destruction. Oh, really? Have you forgotten that Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, Joe Biden, our intelligence departments, the British, and indeed all responsible leaders in the free world also believed and said the same things?
In a July 2003 interview on CNN, former President Bill Clinton said, "People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted-for stocks of biological and chemical weapons."
Earlier, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, now speaker of the House of Representatives, said, "Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology, which is a threat to countries in the region, and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."
And now these leaders openly promote the idea that our president lied – when he acted on the same information they believed and proclaimed.
Obviously, Saddam was known to have used biological and nerve weapons on at least a half million of his own people and had included them in his war with Iran, killing perhaps an equal number of his neighbors. Maybe you've forgotten or were asleep, but millions of us saw the oft repeated tapes of terrorists running in and out of airplane fuselages, rehearsing how to attack and capture airliners, with flame throwers blazing …in northern Iraq! Before, and leading up to, 9-11! It was common knowledge to world leaders, including the U.N., that Saddam was actively pursuing and developing nuclear weapons and had certain top nuclear scientists in his employ.
Any child who ever played "hide and seek" can see how Saddam toyed with the U.N. inspectors, moving and hiding his labs and "works in progress" around, never supplying them with any evidence that he'd destroyed what they knew he once did have. And now a marvelous, thrilling and authoritative book is published – by Saddam's own air vice marshall, an ace and an undeniable hero, an eyewitness to Saddam's machinations and plots through both Gulf wars, right up to and including the toppling of Baghdad, Gen. Georges Sada – "Saddam's Secrets" (Integrity Publishers).
Gen. Sada was there. He was involved from the beginning to the end of Saddam's reign of terror, and he can name names, identify who did what and even reveal what Saddam ordered done with all the incriminating materials and stockpiles and labs, ferrying them across borders into Syria and elsewhere, for "safe keeping."
Sada confirms that Hussein was deeply involved in terrorist training, supplying funds and equipment and out-of-the-way sites to practice the very maneuvers that were employed against America! And he gives intimate, specific details of where, how and when one Boeing 747 and a group of 727s transported hundreds of tons of chemicals, armaments and other paraphernalia into Syria under the cover of a "mission of mercy" to help victims of a flood, caused by a broken irrigation dam.
This is why I get so upset when I hear even a Republican senator or a member of the administration "admit" that they were mistaken about the presence of WMDs; they weren't mistaken. A close, involved participant in the Saddam Hussein regime has indisputably confirmed what Democrats and Republicans believed at the time – and what was true! So please, could responsible media quit repeating the opposition-manufactured lie as though it's the established truth?
There isn't space enough here for me to list all the untruths being propagated in our media and by ultra-liberal propagandists, so – while there are plenty more – I'll only mention one other for now.
"Really, those 12 to 14 million illegal aliens in the country are good for America. They do the jobs Americans don't want to do. They're good citizens."
Sounds good, sounds compassionate and humane, and actually practical, right? Think again.
Our country is a nation of immigrants, true. Most of us or our ancestors came and settled here from other parts of the globe, and we've openly encouraged people to immigrate here and become part of our multi-cultural society, true. But we've always been a country governed by laws, and the laws are applicable to every citizen, without exception. Till now, every naturalized citizen has been required to study our history, learn our laws and our language, and take standard tests – in English – before they can become lawful citizens. The reasons for this standardized process are obvious, fair and practical, and any who have been willing to come in through this process have been welcomed as new Americans. They still are.
But laws that aren't enforced are meaningless. And the results are catastrophic, not just for the natural citizens, but soon even for the illegals. Already, some of our schools, hospitals and other institutions are being swamped and bankrupted, trying to cater to millions of illegals – and when they fail, neither legal nor illegal residents will be served.
In our state elections here in California just a couple of weeks ago, our ballots were printed in three languages, Spanish, Farsi and oh, yes … English. In our Los Angeles schools, 130 languages are employed in our schools, serving – or trying to serve – 190 major people groups. We're becoming like a huge international "bus station," with hardly anybody able to give coherent directions to people trying to find their way – so they can really become good citizens!
Laws are the way a society holds together. Without laws – that apply to everybody – anarchy and chaos are inevitable. We're in a terrible mess, and it's really not fair to law-abiding citizens or those who have entered the country without regard to the law. Once you poke a hole in the side, the whole ship will sink, with everybody on board. The only answer is to repair the hole, fast, and insist that all passengers respect and obey the laws, for the good of all.
Only truth will keep us afloat … and free.
Mega ping!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
If you haven't yet read General Sada's book I highly recommend that you do. There's lots of good stuff in there.
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Thank you, JohnHuang2. And thanks to Mr. Boones as well for a great article.
Isaiah 28 15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: 16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD, Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a tried stone, a precious corner stone, a sure foundation: he that believeth shall not make haste. 17 Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place. 18 And your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, then ye shall be trodden down by it.
Pat should spend some time investigating the sleazy mail order stuff he lends his name to on late night commercials.
Hey Pat, shut up and sing.
Jesus DNA blood?
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Yeah, he could always peddle his own worthless merchandise and ideology, like that fellow...what was his name? Carl Sagan.
Or he could sell his expertise to the highest bidder like certain climate scientists, who assert that global warming is "settled science".
Or maybe he could switch sides, and exchange the "addiction" of Fundamentalism for the addiction of fundamentalist bashing, and feel much better about himself.
The term "fundie" is very offensive to many on this board.
Boo hoo.
Too bad.
I don't care.
Carl Sagan had a TV show, he didn't lend his name out to every sleazeball seller of insurance, gold, coins and whatever.
Pat needs to shut up and sing, no different than a liberal trying to push their viewpoints.
No, he lent his reputation to support the unsupportable concept of nuclear winter in order to push an ideology that proved to be wrong in the end (Nuclear disarmament).
Funny how under stable conditions the weather cannot be accurately predicted three days in advance, yet Sagan presumed to know what would happen under far less than stable conditions.
Maybe he should have shut up and went back to astrophysics, or, God forbid, actually taught a class or two at the institute that employed him as a prof.
O kaaayy ...
This is a very insightful quote from Isaiah, which is one of my favorite books in the Bible. America, unfortunately, has become a hedonistic nation and all anyone has to do is to read this book to view the inevitable consequences of such immorality.
Another lie is that they're 12-14 million illegal aliens. The real number is more like 25-30 milllion and growing.
related article .......
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1806014/posts
Not the point. Saddam was inviolation of the 1991 cease fire.
Saddam toyed with the U.N. inspectors, moving and hiding his labs and "works in progress" around, never supplying them with any evidence that he'd destroyed what they knew he once did have.
Which is why he is now dead.
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