why didn't they follow through on this?

[julka]

After months of searching for a unified political attack against President Bush, congressional Democrats have settled on a new and, some say, controversial strategy: questioning the president's truthfulness.

On an almost daily basis now, congressional Democrats are warning of a "credibility gap" between what Bush says to the American people and what he does through new government policies.

Last week, with most members away for the Presidents' Day recess, Democratic leaders circulated "Caught on Film: a photo history of the Bush credibility gap," highlighting "various examples of the Administration making promises at various photo-ops and then slashing funding for the very priorities it stressed." It covered everything from education to programs for the poor.

In this and other releases, Democrats hit Bush for what they say is his shortchanging of police, firefighters and other homeland security "first-responders" when public anxiety about a new terrorist attack is running high. Rep. David R. Obey (Wis.) on Friday sent out a release titled, "White House Continues Efforts to Deceive Nation's First Responders."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A54858-2003Feb23¬Found=true

did anybody ever see any of this?

it's exactly what they should have been doing for the LAST FOUR YEARS!!!!

it's what the pugs did

when are they going to get it?

that little typewriter add about African uranium was a wimpy little start

[wtmusic]

1. Not sure why

questioning a liar's truthfulness should be 'controversial'. The technique works because people cannot accept that someone they supported has lied to them. Karl Rove is the grand master of exploiting it.

[julka]

2. exactly!

the boiler room was probably the most effective tool the Rovians used to destroy Gore's reputation during the selection campaign.

the media were 'forbidden' to write about it until after the installation, remember?

Barbara Comstock, in charge of that cesspool, is now Ashcroft's chief spokescreep.

all they did was peddle an unending series of lies and distortions.

all the dems have to do is google 'bush lies/lied' and they'll have MORE material than they could ever possibly use.

like this:

"I don't believe anyone that I know in the administration ever said that Iraq had nuclear weapons."
—Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, at a hearing of the Senate's appropriations subcommittee on defense, May 14, 2003

"We believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons."
—Vice President Dick Cheney on NBC's Meet the Press, March 16, 2003

ok, so it's not bush....so sue me

[julka]

3. I love Bushwatch

Bush lies So often and in so many different ways that I've never had the patience to keep a list of them. However, when I write something and include the generalization that Bush lies, some readers will write in and say, "Oh, yeh? What did he lie about? I don't believe it." What follows, then, is an informal listing of just some of the lies he typically tells, starting from 2/01. Now, of course, we all know that Gore lies, Lott lies, Cheney lies, etc. But the difference between those liars and Bush is the Resident tells us that he is telling the truth when he is lying. Hence, he will tell us what he is going to do, like get his proposed tax cut from the surplus, then try to get his proposed tax cut from military and medicare funds, instead. Or, once he has actually begun a program, tell us lies about how or why the program has begun. Or tell a closed-door Dem meeting something and then swear up and down the next day that he didn't say it. Or saying, "Yes, Mam" and meaning "No, Mam." Or having a spinner say the opposite the next day. Or, or...you get the idea.

http://www.bushwatch.net/bushlies.htm

[sandnsea]

4. It said something about President's Day???

And the country edging towards war. Maybe this is old or something. It came up in black on a blue background and I couldn't read it too well. If this is an idea of theirs though, I think it's time to go ahead and implement it!

[julka]

5. that was the one......it came up fine for me

dunno why it didn't work too well for you.....took awhile to load

more good lies, etc.

"This is the heart of the matter. Much of the US evidence must be accepted, if it is accepted at all, on trust. Mr Powell's sources were mostly anonymous defectors, detainees, third country spooks and US intelligence. His overall case was undercut by the recycling of old tales about al-Qaida "poison plotters" in Baghdad. He refused to accept the IAEA's conclusions on Iraqi nuclear bomb-making. His evidential interpretations were often harsher than those of Hans Blix. Mr Powell certainly did the UN a service in finally opening his Iraq dossier to public view. But the way forward must now be expanded, intensified inspections equipped with this new evidence, as France proposes. Iraq must disarm. The US and Britain must not jump the gun." 02.06.03

http://www.guardian.co.uk/leaders/story/0,3604,889645,00.html

then this:

As part of Secretary of State Colin Powell's presentation to the United Nations Security Council today, he said there was a "sinister nexus between Iraq and the al Qaeda terrorist network" — the nexus being a small, little known terrorist group called Ansar al-Islam, which is now at the center of the U.S. case. Powell showed a satellite photograph of what he said was a chemical weapons training center in Northern Iraq, used by al Qaeda and protected by Ansar al-Islam. "Baghdad has an agent in the most senior levels of the radical organization, Ansar al-Islam, that controls this corner of Iraq," said Powell. The group, whose name means "Supporters of Islam," rules a remote portion of the autonomous northern Kurdish territories in Iraq near the Iran border, which is not controlled by Saddam Hussein. In fact, their leaders say they seek to overthrow Saddam Hussein and his government...In an interview with ABCNEWS, the man considered the leader of Ansar al-Islam, Majamuddin Fraraj Ahmad, who is also known as Mullah Krekar, denied all allegations that he is in any way linked to al Qaeda. "They are our enemy," he said, adding that his group opposes Saddam Hussein because, unlike Osama bin Laden, Saddam is not a good Muslim." 02.06.03

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/DailyNews/ansar030205_krekar.html