Posted on 11/15/2005 5:35:31 AM PST by conservativecorner
Unless you've been hiding under your bed, you know that Democrats have stepped up their campaign to convince the American people that over two thousand young men and women of the American armed forces died in Iraq for one reason and for one reason only, Bush lied. The problem with this "Bush lied" charge is that Democrats know full well that it simply is not true. The issue for Democrats though is not whether or not the charge is true, but whether or not they can convince the American people that it is true. For politicians ... and I'm referring to politicians on both sides of the aisle ... the truth is whatever you can convince the people that it is. The problem with this particular attempt to create a new truth is that it is undermining our war on terror and endangering the men and women serving in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Yesterday I gave you a reading assignment for a Wall Street Journal article by Norman Podhoretz titled "Who is Lying About Iraq?" Here's your link in case you missed it yesterday. In his 10-page essay Podhoretz does an excellent job of showing just how completely dishonest the Democrats are being in their attacks on Bush. The problem we face here is that people who are convinced that Bush lied about the reasons for going after Saddam won't bother to read the article. These people just don't want to be inconvenienced by the truth.
On the same issue, last night we had an object lesson in just why leftists hate Fox News Channel. Brian Wilson appeared on Special Report with Brit Hume to specifically address some of the "Bush lied" claims being made by Democrats. The first Democrat featured in Wilson's report was Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid. Reid recently said that his vote for using military force to remove Saddam was based " ... on a number of things. Yellowcake. Aluminum tubes. Secret meetings by Iraqi agents in Europe. Training facilities in Iraq training terrorists." Well, that seems to be at variance with what Harry Reid said on March 17, 2003. On that date Reid said "I agree with - and have long supported - the ultimate goal of disarming Saddam Hussein. Removing this despicable tyrant from power will make the world a safer place." Hmmmmm .... no mention of yellowcake, aluminum tubes or terrorist training. He just said that the world would be a safer place with Saddam out of power. Anti-Saddam then. Pro-Saddam now. Go figure.
Oh -- and don't give me flack about that "pro-Saddam" line. To say that the United States should not have gone to war in Iraq is to say that Saddam Hussein should not have been removed from power. You can't have it both ways.
Next we have Michigan's Democratic Senator Carl Levin: Just a few days ago Levin, in pushing the idea that Bush lied, said "President Bush said before the war you cannot distinguish between Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein." Is it true? Did Bush really say that? Some reporters pressed Levin and his aids to come up with the specifics of that quote ... when Bush said that you cannot distinguish between Saddam and Al Qaeda. The best that Levin's office could do was to come up with a White House briefing on September 25, 2002. At that event Bush was asked who he considered to be the greater threat to the United States, Al Qaeda or Saddam Hussein. He answered: "Both of them need to be dealt with. The war on terror ... you can't distinguish between Saddam and Al Qaeda when you talk about the war on terror. You can't distinguish between the two because they're both equally as bad." Does it seem to you that Levin took that statement out of context? Of course he did! And since Fox News Channel didn't let him get away with it, that makes Fox News Channel a right-wing extremist hate machine.
Carl Levin wasn't through with his distortions and lies. He also claimed that Bush said that Saddam trained the 9/11 hijackers. Take the way-back machine to January of 2003. Bush was asked if he thought that Saddam had anything to do with training the 9/11 hijackers. His response? " can't make that claim." OK, Senator Levin ... you're move.
It's not news that politicians lie. They do -- Republicans and Democrats alike. The news here is that you won't find the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, Time or Newsweek going out of their way to investigate the claims made by Levin, Reid and the rest of the "Bush lied" cabal the way Fox News Channel and The Wall Street Journal did. Why, that would be out of the mainstream, wouldn't it?
As far as I'm concerned, the democrats voted for a war they didn't believe in because they needed bodies of soldiers to use as a weapon.
The msm wonders why FOX is so successful. The truth sells.
Great post!
By why care?? Who cares WHAT the democrats say??
You can't tell the difference between what THEY say about President Bush these days and.........WHAT THE TRAITOROUS-SELF-SERVING-"VOTE-FOR-ME-FOR-RE-ELECTION"- BACKSTABBING REPUBLICANS ARE SAYING NOW.
WHO NEED THE DEMOCRATS THESE DAYS ANYHOW?
Great post though CC--thanks.
Good post..
The true patriots are those who serve a few terms and return to private life.
Term limits works for the president.....must be applied to Congress as well!!
It's not about "care".
It's the pablum fed to the ignorant masses by the MSM that just accept it at face value.
That's the problem
Dems knew that if it went well they would claim it was THEIR votes that brought down Saddam.
Or, anything bad that happens in the Middle East for the rest of time, they will "Blame Bush"
Imagine for a moment that the MSM was honest. Their top news story would be, "We don't have any evidence that Bush lied."
Yet they continue to act as though it's a fact that he did.
Republican lies, the MSM rounds up the lynch mob.
Ever it was, ever it shall be.
Forty years of power thoroughly corrupted the Democratic Party. It has lost the power, but not the corruption. It now behaves like a flea ridden mongrel. It is so busy scratching its fleas that cannot see the world around it. It needs to get back to its roots before those roots die.
Why bother having all these misrepresentatives in DC if the citizens have to do all the representing? All they do is sit in their musty chambers - chamber pots, more like - count the money, and hide from those "mean widdle democwats" then dish up the excuse of "well (harumpf!) if we fight with them, we're no better than they are (harumpf!)" Oh, puh-leeez. We KNOW you're no better than they are - you're politicians, for cryin' out loud!!
Grow a spine and get in there and defend us, you morons!
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