Posted on 09/09/2006 6:12:25 PM PDT by shrinkermd
Five years after Sept. 11, the Democrats have suddenly become obsessed with truth. Their version of it.
Former President Bill Clinton is incensed with the ABC docudrama "The Path to 9/11," set to run Sunday night, that depicts his administration as cavalier in its disregard for the threats al-Qaeda posed, and too distracted by the Monica Lewinski affair in any case to act decisively. Clinton is concerned a TV dramatization will become the accepted version of history. Democrats in Congress threatened to wage regulatory jihad on ABC, and ABC went back into rewrite.
Some observers are shocked by the hypocrisy and the chilling effect this kind of behavior can have on the free discussion of ideas in the United States. But I welcome this development.
For starters, I assume this means that legions of Bush-haters will be showing up at Michael Moore’s house, demanding refund of the $8 each of them spent on his falsehood-studded distort-a-palooza, "Fahrenheit 911." At the time, outright lying and revisionism were being encouraged by the left, so it was reasonable for them to subsidize Moore’s tour de force in the genre. But they are attempting to move beyond that, and we should encourage them....
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bostonherald.com ...
"...All of the world’s major intelligence agencies, probably to include most agents in Saddam Hussein’s own Mukhabarat as well as his own generals, believed Iraq had an active WMD program. He did, as has been recently shown, have existing stockpiles of up to 700 chemical projectiles.
"...Iraq attempted to buy uranium in Niger. The outing of Valerie Plame was not a White House plot.
"...Saddam was winning the sanctions war. He had throughly corrupted the United Nations food-for-oil program and Europe was pushing to eliminate the crumbling sanctions regime. Had Saddam been allowed to remain in power, the likelihood is that he would have resumed production and development of WMD....
Democrats for Truth = few in number.
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In addition, the U.S. was spending about $10 billion per year enforcing the no-fly zones in Iraq and the Iraqis were very frequently challenging U.S. supremacy in the UN mandated no-fly zones.
Democrats for truth = Oxymoron.
Yes! Every week the Clintonoids would announce that hey had dropped bombs or cruise missiles in Iraq, related to no-fly-zones and SAM sites.
good read
"RATs FOR TRUTH"!?!?
Sorry...this does NOT COMPUTE!!!
RATs can't handle the truth!!
Might have been possible, once upon a time, long long ago...
But today? No.
Good post, Shrinkermd but don't forget:
Saddam's goons fired SAMs at NATO jets patrolling the no-fly zone in Iraq for several years, up until we invaded Iraq and removed the threat.
The "dims for truth" completely ignore this well-documented fact.
Are called "Republicans."
Democrats are for the sort of truth that you can only get with the aid of an airbrush and far heavier, blunter instruments.
Democrats for truth, isn't that some kind of oxymoron?
The Boston Herald must feel like the lone voice in the wilderness at times.
Outstanding read.
Thanks for posting this.
It is becoming increasingly clear that democrats are worse
than the terrorists, they are undermining America.
At least with the muslims you know they want to kill you.
Democrats are subversive they want to rape your childrens minds and give our country to the first totalitarian they can find.
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