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Dutifully reporting the lies of a dishonest government and campaigning politicians?

"I'm still laughing at how the Bush administration is out smarting the democrats in Congress at every turn."

Laugh while you can.

Your sorry assed demagogues have succeeded in squandering international goodwill towards the U.S., sold military technology to China in order to insure low prices at Wal-Mart and guaranteed that not only *you*, but your children (if you stop doing the hand dance long enough to have any), and their children's chidren will be paying the price for their stupidity.

The long and short of it laughing boy, is that *your* party attempted to impeach a sitting president over a stain on a blue dress and failed, but have sufficiently befuddled the nation with misdirection and divisiveness that we are failing to impeach a president and his cronies who have lied to us, lead us into a quagmire, are shredding the constitution at every turn, and who felt the need to put safeguards in place to prevent them from being charged as war criminals like his father was.

So, yeah, good ahead and laugh, I for one will shed a tear.

I can't let this one go. Republican strategists tried for all 8 years of Clinton's presidency to nail him, they hated him so. The fact that the most credible charge they could come up with was lying about the Lewinsky affair(which was, I admit, stupid and unnecessary) is a testament to his relative integrity as a politician. He was under such heavy scrutiny from the Republican congress that they would have nailed him to the cross had he done something else even remotely as morally reprehensible. But none of preceding accusations levied against him held water, so they were left with the stupid Lewinsky tapes. This is not to excuse him, but to simply show that we once had a competent and relatively honest creature for our president.

This all lies in contrast, of course, to our current president, whose resignation you apparently aren't calling for. He hasn't been held accountable for a single false, misleading, or outright deceptive public statement, of which there are plenty to cite. Some say that these lies have directly resulted in as many as half a million deaths. The only reason he has gotten away with them is because he has encountered virtually no resistance or scrutiny from Congress, and has skillful deceptive tactictians who, in a very real, cynical, Machiavellian sense, have artfully deceived the entire world, America included, into turning over as much power as possible to them and their cronies. Heavy accusations, I know. But unlike many of the Republican accusations against Clinton, these hold water.

So what I suppose you are really complaining about is that Clinton got caught.

In the interests of not making a book-length post:

http://www.bushlies.net/pages/10/
Top ten lies.

http://bushwatch.org/bushlies.htm
With more lies from administration officials as well as Bush

http://www.bushlies.net/pages/1/
War on terror lies.

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/07/22_lie s.html
Iraq lies.

http://pearly-abraham.tripod.com/htmls/bushlies1.h tml
More lies.

Google " "bush lies" OR "Bush administration lies" " for another million or so pages.

In the interests of not making a book-length post:

http://www.bushlies.net/pages/10/
Top ten lies.

http://bushwatch.org/bushlies.htm
With more lies from administration officials as well as Bush

http://www.bushlies.net/pages/1/
War on terror lies.

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/07/22_lie s.html
Iraq lies.

http://pearly-abraham.tripod.com/htmls/bushlies1.h tml
More lies.

Google " "bush lies" OR "Bush administration lies" " for another million or so pages.

I assume you're talking about the Iraq war, and not the pre-1990 Saddam support and Islamic extremism. After the war there have been a lot of excuses about incorrect intelligence as leading to it. Now, we could ask about how the heck the world's best-funded, most advanced intelligence agency could make such wrong assessments that lead so quickly to disastrous and expensive consequences, but we don't have to. It turns out that the facts that there were no WMD in Iraq and that it had no links with terrorism were known to the CIA, before the Iraq war. Read through http://bushlies.net/pages/9/index.htm and take a look at the dates. Recall that the Iraq war started March 19th, 2003. If you want a really quick pointer start with the second item under "Niger Uranium and Reconstituted Nuclear Program". The cool thing is that by just saying that the intelligence was flawed they now got people to believe it.

Actually, France was not eager to sell weapons/equipment to Saddam (do /France on http://bushlies.net/pages/9/index.htm). And, in case you forgot, the US sponsored Saddam's government until ~1990 and even the Taliban while the Russians were in Afghanistan. There was no radical Islam in Iraq - Saddam's government, like many dictatorships, tried to quench religious forces to maintain absolute power. France and Germany were not the only countries to oppose the Iraq war, practically every country except the US and Britain did and there were protests worldwide. Try to get some facts right - the reason a lot of people dislike the US is not anything that happened years before most of us was born but rather the fact that many people seem to have no idea about what the country is doing yet it's one of the countries that needs the most direction to do things right due to sheer size and power.

All of this, of course, ignores the fact that when the President of the United States decides to embrace the doctrine of preemptive war, claiming that there is an imminent threat to his own nation, the burdern of proof is on him to support those claims. Let's see the evidence of WMDs in Iraq. How about those aerial drones that could be used against the US? An Iraq-Al Qaeda link? Some uranium from Africa? Anything?

Bush Lies!!

Bush lies. Personally, I'd rather have a president who lies about his personal life than one that lies to the American people about his policies.