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Are you stupid enough to believe one word from Bush & Cheney?
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by Helen & Harry Highwater, Unknown News July 12, 2006
Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States:| |
"I happen to believe that when you say something you better mean it. ... And so the choice was Saddam Hussein's choice. He could have not fooled the inspectors. He could have welcomed the world in. He could have told us what was going on. But he didn't. And so we moved." |
That's President George W Bush, just last week — repeating the same lie he offered before attacking Iraq three years ago. As America sinks into the quagmire he created where Iraq used to be, George W Bush is still lying, and he still thinks you're so stupid you don't know that Saddam Hussein did disclose, that he had disarmed, that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction.
Bush thinks you're so brainwashed, you'll believe that the choice for war was Saddam Hussein's choice. He thinks you'll believe that Hussein didn't allow the world's weapons inspectors in, that Saddam Hussein didn't say plainly and repeatedly that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction.
Does anyone even believe that Bush believes his own lies? Bush can't possibly believe such nonsense as his absurd notion that terrorists attacked America because "they hate our freedoms." He's said many times that he didn't want war — who's stupid enough to believe that?
After years of Bush manure, who's naïve enough to believe any of the myriad lies from the White House —
• that the Bush-Cheney administration had no advance warning of a terrorist plot against America in the summer of 2001
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that nobody anticipated the breech of the levees in New Orleans
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that Saddam Hussein was connected to 9/11 (alternating with lies that nobody ever said that)
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that Congressmen and Senators have access to the same
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It's time to speak truth, not in a whisper but as loud as it can be shouted:
The truth is the opposite of whatever the Bush-Cheney administration says.
Their facts are dead wrong, always, week after month after year.
While lying that they're "protecting" America, Bush and Cheney have willfully made America far less safe, and made themselves enemies of everything that ever made this nation great.
The sum total of Bush-Cheney policies — on economics, foreign policy, the environment, privacy, civil rights, health, education, you name the topic — is the end of America as we know it.
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intelligence the White House sees
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that "the smoking gun could come in the form of a mushroom cloud"
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that Social Security is nearing a meltdown
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that anyone who leaks a CIA agent's identity would be fired from this administration
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that "We do not engage in torture"
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that "Leave No Child Behind" has accomplished anything worthwhile
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that Bush-Cheney tax cuts helped anyone but the fabulously wealthy
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that the new prescription drug program helps seniors a fraction as much as it helps the pharmaceutical companies
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that Don Rumsfeld is doing a fine job
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that the prisoners on Guantanamo aren't prisoners, or that they were captured on the battlefield
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that the US has disrupted "at least ten" terrorist plots against America
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that seemingly every Muslim captured or killed is the number three man in al Qaeda
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that warrantless monitoring of your every phone call, email, and bank transaction has something to do with an alleged war on terror
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that reporting on Bush-Cheney lawbreaking imperils national security
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that the Clean Air Act cleans the air
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• lies and lies and more lies
• and then, more lies.
From his first Presidential lie, when he swore to uphold and defend the Constitution, who's stupid enough to believe Bush has told the truth about anything?
And let's not even take a depressing detour to all the reports the
Bush-Cheney administration has sought to have suppressed because they didn't like the facts. Let's skip past this administration's disregard for the Freedom of Information Act and their fetish for classifying every shred of information that belies their lies. No, let's get to the point:
With the exception of the mentally handicapped and the chronically un-informed, nobody in the world is stupid enough to believe that Bush and Cheney are men of honor steering America's future to the best of their abilities. You'd have to be dumber than a dish-mop to respect Bush as a "leader" or "a man of character."
Anyone who's paying attention knows that Bush and Cheney are criminals, but millions of people can't or don't pay attention. They're struggling to survive in this Bush-ruined economy, or maybe they're just not interested in politics. Thirty percent of Americans still support the Bush administration, and sure, a lot of those people are just plain stupid — but a lot of them probably believe in Bush because the corporate-controlled media refuses to report the facts of the matter. AP and the New York Times have reporters covering the White House beat, the Washington Post and CNN and MSNBC have reporters there, and all these reporters know what's happening — but if any of them tried to report the facts of the matter their reports wouldn't run, and the reporters would be fired and replaced.
So it can't be reported in corporate-controlled newspapers, cannot be broadcast on for-profit news networks. There's no money to be made from reporting the awful truth, and there are still profits to be squeezed out for as long as the charade can be extended, so the facts of the matter must remain mum, only whispered, never spoken plainly by the likes of Stone Phillips or Brian Williams.
But we'll tell you what the mainstream media won't: The ship of state is not being steered — either that or it's being piloted full-speed ahead straight for the rocks.
This is not "politics as usual." Bush and Cheney are not ordinary leaders, with ordinary problems of political corruption or bumbling incompetence. They have exponentially surpassed previous standards of US political malfeasance and chicanery.
This isn't a trivial matter, like sex in the Oval Office — it's sacrificing American soldiers' lives for nothing.
This isn't routine politics — every policy of this administration is detrimental to America.
This isn't a return to sinister Nixonesque tactics — it's gone far, far beyond that. Nixon, you'll recall, resigned in disgrace because he was caught in a lie over a bit of burglary, but Bush and Cheney have told lies that make Nixon's lie look like sainthood. Bush and Cheney never stop lying, and where Nixon was disgraced to be caught in a lie, Bush and Cheney simply tell another lie, then another. They're immune to disgrace.
These criminals in the White House have repeatedly broken the law, ignored the Constitution, reduced Americans' rights and freedoms, and that's what they're working on today, and tomorrow, and the day after that. That's what they do — it's the only thing they've done since taking office, and the only thing they'll do until they're booted from office.
Bush and Cheney are dismantling American freedoms that earlier generations fought and died for, and smearing or shouting 'treason' at anyone brave enough to stand up for America.
It's time to speak truth, not in a whisper but as loud as it can be shouted: The truth is the opposite of whatever the Bush-Cheney administration says. Their facts are dead wrong, always, week after month after year. While lying that they're "protecting" America, Bush and Cheney have willfully made America far less safe, and made themselves enemies of everything that ever made this nation great.
Do the math yourself: The sum total of Bush-Cheney policies — on economics, foreign policy, the environment, privacy, civil rights, health, education, you name the topic — is the end of America as we know it.
In a particularly flamboyant lie, Bush once announced, "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists." But patriots know better. People who love America have had enough of the lies. If you're not standing against the Bush-Cheney administration, you're standing against America.
You'd have to be pretty dang stupid not to know that, by now.
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Helen and Harry Highwater have published Unknown News since 1997. We're a married couple sharing a byline à la Lennon and McCartney, and "I" can be either of us, or both of us. If you're consumed by curiosity, it's safe to assume the more boisterous and aggressive bits come from Helen, and anything ladylike or demure is probably Harry's work.
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