Monday, May 09, 2005
George W. Bush lying lying lying warmongering warmongering warmongering
Well put:The Top Ten Conservative Idiots, No. 197 - Democratic Underground: "George W. Bush lying lying lying warmongering warmongering warmongering
We mentioned this item in passing last week but it's surely worth bringing up again - especially since most of the corporate media seem too scared to touch it. A secret British memo released last week reveals that George W. Bush was bending intelligence reports to fit his plan for invading Iraq, and also that the British and American leaders had already decided to invade, even while they were telling their governments and their public that they had not. Yes, according to Knight Ridder:
A highly classified British memo, leaked in the midst of Britain's just-concluded election campaign, indicates that President Bush decided to overthrow Iraqi President Saddam Hussein by summer 2002 and was determined to ensure that U.S. intelligence data supported his policy.
The document, which summarizes a July 23, 2002, meeting of British Prime Minister Tony Blair with his top security advisers, reports on a visit to Washington by the head of Britain's MI-6 intelligence service.
The visit took place while the Bush administration was still declaring to the American public that no decision had been made to go to war.
'There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable,' the MI-6 chief said at the meeting, according to the memo. 'Bush wanted to remove Saddam through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD,' weapons of mass destruction.
The memo said 'the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy.'
So - lying to the American people? Lying to Congress? Sounds like an impeachable offense to me. Or maybe not - I mean, sure he lied to Congress, lied to the public, got us into a war which has killed almost 1600 American soldiers so far and countless thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians, is bankrupting us with an unnecessary war and a military budget which will soon total more than the entire rest of the world combined, created thousands of new terrorists and turned Iraq into a breeding ground for more, and because of his lies and his policies, America is decidedly less safe...
...but hey - at least he didn't get a blowjob, right?"
I drive all over the place, but someone else should pay for it?
I wonder if Debbie Limke sees the irony in her statements now that they're written down?Minnesota Poll: Gas-tax support runs low: "'I think gas prices are high enough the way it is,' said Debbie Limke, 44, of Apple Valley, mother of three sons.
Higher pump prices have been especially tough on 'people who have kids and are driving all over the place,' Limke said. Roads do need improving, in her opinion, but 'I think they should find another way to get the money.'"
