Posted on 11/15/2005 5:54:51 AM PST by ajolympian2004
The Bush administration is finally and concertedly pushing back against the Deaniac Democrat lie that President Bush somehow lied us into war in Iraq. The president has delivered two speeches in the past few days that take direct aim at those Democrats who voted in favor of the war but now claim that the administration duped them into that vote by lying about the intelligence regarding Saddam's WMD. All of this is to the good, and it's long past being about time the administration did this. A majority of the country now sees President Bush as a dishonest man; the "Bush LIED" meme and the administration's lack of a robust self-defense against it are two big reasons why.
The tragedy of the situation is that the administration could prove beyond doubt that it didn't lie its way into war just by promoting a simple Google search. Take a look at this graphic.
You can either go to Google and plug in the search string in that graphic, or you can just click on the graphic. Google will take you back in time to 1998, the last time prior to the invasion that the US and Saddam Hussein had a major confrontation. The Google search string Clinton Iraq 1998 will bring up 3.5 million hits about that conflict, during which pretty much every prominent Democrat expressed his or her belief that Saddam had or was developing WMD and was a threat because of it.
No one believed then or since that any US action including Operation Desert Fox in December 1998 completely destroyed Saddam's WMD programs. So if the Democrats believed in those weapons back then, why are they claiming to have been fooled by Bush into believing in them in 2002 and 2003? Well, it's obviously politics at work--the leftwing base of the Democrat party has pulled even its national security hawks to the left, where conspiracy theories rule. And the biggest conspiracy theory that the left loves concerns the war, and how Bush LIED us into it.
So Google it. Prove for yourself that he didn't, and indeed couldn't have. Tell your wavering friends to Google Clinton Iraq 1998. If you have Bush-hating friends, make them do that search and then watch their world crumble around them.
By the way, my latest column for TechCentralStation is on this very topic.
I'm going to be in the air and on the road until Friday on the endless Unhinged book tour. I'll check in when I can. Meantime, I've invited back a fabulous foursome of guest-bloggers:
Brian Maloney, The Radio Equalizer
Bryan Preston of The Junkyard Blog
Lorie Byrd of Polipundit and Byrd Droppings
Betsy Newmark of Betsy's Page
Give them a warm welcome and enjoy their work!
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Unfortunately, I'll be missing the big Pajamas Media rollout in NYC tomorrow. Roger L. Simon has dispatches. Congrats to all and I'm looking forward to being a part of this ground-breaking venture. On a related note, here's a nice profile in the New York Sun by Meghan Clyne.
Clinton lied, 3000 died.
If the facts of the 'Able Danger' mission ever becomes known by a majority of America that truth about the Clinton administration will become known to all when it comes to 9/11.
That would assume that "your wavering friends" were 1) Wavering and not in the state of constant denial, and ... 2) able to read, understand the written word and believe the sources they have read.
From what I have seen, this is a long hard stretch on all counts.
Just this little bit should get you really wound up...
Despite the overwhelming evidence, the Media does not care. They are complicit in the Democrats efforts to spread lies.
Bush needs to do an interview on national TV and be on his game.
I think a bumper sticker "Just Google 'clinton Iraq 1998'" would be very effective, people would do it out of curiosity.
The GOP site has an excellent video of remarks made by the Clintoon's pet rats in 1998 about $addam's WMDs, and the danger they presented. Please go to the link below to watch and listen. Just click the icon, "Play now":
http://www.gop.com/Default.aspx
Someone on this forum has the talent to do it. I'd love to see a sample.
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I really like the relaxed looking 'Jesse's Girl' picture better than the others being posted.
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