Bush, Saddam, and the Weapons of Mass Destruction: WHO IS REALLY LYING?

Jan 25, 2004 | TruthShallSetYouFree

[Rome2000]

We can't be bothered with FACTS.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Thank you very much.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

I am thrilled that FOX News had the highest ratings for the State of the Union Speech. It will only have real meaning, however, when Fox News has more viewers than all the other stations combined. Then, we could truly say that the truth is winning out.

The voters in America don't want to work hard enough to
understand complex issues. That's why the democrat soundbites are so effective. To the average Joe Sixpack Putz, the dems' lying resonates.
"Bush said there were WMD's. We can't find the WMD's. Therefore, Bush lied." Simple and easy.

If logic and understanding of the issues were truly taking place, there would be very few democrats in office anywhere in our country.

[OldFriend]

Right now it's difficult for the republicans because we are only getting dem news 24/7, or 24/6 as LIEberman says.

It seems as tho the whole country is dem. We won't get equal time but we will be speaking up and they won't be able to silence us completely as they are doing now.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

After I wrote this article and posted it here, I also emailed it to several people who don't ordinarily visit this site. They are not all conservatives, either. One person commented that Bush, in addition to overhyping the WMD's, also talked about an "imminent threat." I did some research, and answered him as follows:

The media and the democrat party have used, as a point of attack, the reference that George Bush made to an "imminent threat." Guess what? They are lying. Again.

Here is the actual quote:

"Some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent. Since when have terrorists and tyrants announced their intentions, politely putting us on notice before they strike?"

Here is a reference link.

Bush didn't say the threat was imminent. He said we couldn't afford to wait until the threat was imminent.

[petercooper]

Nice piece!

[secret garden]

Bump for a later read. Wow Truthy, you've been busy!

[international american]

"Bush didn't say the threat was imminent. He said we couldn't afford to wait until the threat was imminent."

Good! BTTT

[RikaStrom]

Wow. Just . . .wow.

Excellently said.

[Wolfstar]

Well done! I expect the Dems to lie and twist the truth in order to try to regain power. What frosts me is that so many in the media spout the Dem lies as though they were fact. Even that pompous windbag, Bill O'Reilly, on his radio program this morning, was calling for the President to "tell the truth." The media has the facts just as you stated them, yet they choose to ignore them.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Thanks. I think the media has heard the big lies so many times, they have become lazy and don't even bother to do a thorough source check. Then, they end up repeating the lies and adding to the disinformation and misinformation. Sure, some of it (most of it) from the left, is deliberate. From others, O'Reilly included, it's just laziness.

Most Americans would swear that it was Humphrey Bogart's character, Rick, who uttered the words, "Play it again, Sam," in Casablanca. A minority might even believe it was Ilsa, played by Ingrid Bergman, who said it. In truth, it was neither. Those words were never uttered.

Here is the actual quote, taken from reel classics.com.

Neither he nor Ilsa ever said "Play it again, Sam" to Wilson. What she says, after entering the club with her Resistance-hero husband, whom she believed dead when she took up with Rick in Paris, is, "Play it once, Sam, for old time's sake. Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By.' " Rick, rushing over, says, "Sam, I thought I told you never to play it." Then he notices Ilsa. They exchange a long look. Later, when Rick is sitting at a table after hours (muttering, "Of all the gin joints in all the towns in the world, she walks into mine"), he masochistically asks Sam to play: "You know what I want to hear. You played it for her. You can play it for me. If she can stand it, I can. Play it!"

Of course, in Casablanca, what Bogey clearly intended was for Sam to play it again. He just never used that exact phrase. When the media quotes Bush as saying that he justified the war by claiming the threat from Iraq was imminent, they are actually implying something very different (close to antithetical) from what Bush actually said, which was that basically, we couldn't afford to wait until the threat became imminent. Big difference!

What Bush said was equivalent to: "Hey, there is a big thunderstorm coming in. We'd better get off the golf course right away so that we don't get hit by lightning."

What the dems believe, apparently, is that it's okay to stand out there on the fairway, metal club in hand, and, when the lightning strikes, then, and only then, is the threat imminent. I guess when the electricity starts coming toward him at 186,000 miles/second, a democrat would figure that he still had plenty of time to jump out of the way. Actually, I've seen Kerry, Clark, and the others change positions even faster than that, so maybe they're onto something.

[KevinDavis]

Don't forget about those from the Far Right.