Natural Born Liars ... Bush is Natural Born Liar ... PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

[RedEarth]

George W. Bush is a natural born liar. He lied us into a war, and now he is lying to keep us there. In his October 6 self-congratulatory speech at that neoconservative shrine, the National Endowment for Democracy, the President of the United States said: "Today there are more than 80 Iraqi army battalions fighting the insurgency alongside our forces."

Eighty Iraqi battalions makes it sound like the US is just lending Iraq a helping hand. I wonder what Congress and the US commanders in Iraq thought when they heard there were 80 Iraqi battalions that American troops are helping to fight insurgents? Just a few days prior to Bush's speech, Generals Casey and Abizaid told Congress that, as a matter of fact, there was only one Iraqi battalion able to undertake operations against insurgents.

I wonder, also, who noticed the great contradiction in Bush's speech. On the one hand, he claims steady progress toward freedom and democracy in Iraq. On the other hand, he seeks the American public's support for open-ended war.

In her Princeton speech, Condi Rice made it clear that Iraq is just the beginning: "We have set out to help the people of the Middle East transform their societies. Now is not the time to falter or fade."

On October 5 Vice President Cheney let us know how long this commitment was to last: "Like other great duties in history, it will require decades of patient effort."

Who's going to pay for these decades of war to which the Bush administration is committing Americans? Already the US is spending $7 billion a month on war in Iraq alone. The nonpartisan Congressional Research Service says that if the Iraq war goes on another five years, it will cost at least $570 billion by 2010.

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts10112005.html

[XNASA]

1. You have to know how to lie to be a successful imperialist pig.

Emphasis on the word "successful".

[snippy]

2. Bush is a liar? I'm shocked.

Except for the American media the entire world knows that Bush is one of the most compulsive and incessant liars in the history of American politics.

There is no subject so somber, serious, or shallow that Bush will not lie about it. The only other option is not to lie. And that apparently is something Bush can not do.

For example:

Bush says he fell off his bicycle because of the heavy rains and he watched on television on the morning of 9/11 as the first plane hit the first WTC tower and John McCain has an illegitimate Negro daughter and Bush would veto McCain-Feingold and the yawning boy was not there and was not yawning and besides he was standing some place else and Richard Clarke had complete access to Bush and Rice which proves that Clarke was out of the loop which is Clinton's fault but the White House revealed that Clarke briefed the press on background about Bush fighting terrorism which means that unnamed White House sources may not be identified even when Bush wants to and everyone except Bush himself knows where he was during his National Guard service but it was Clinton's fault that Bush did not show up for duty which was after Bush volunteered to go to Viet Nam but before he was no longer required to take a flight physical and about the same time that God ordered him to smite Saddam because the 70 lines of embryonic stem cells and more arsenic in the water and more mercury in the air and the completely safe air in New York City folowing 9/11 prove that the intelligently designed republican science is better than sound science and the Bush administration did not illegally conspire to illegally reveal the identity of a covert CIA operative which resulted in 2 million new jobs being created because democrats support terrorism and are not good Americans just as the Jews were not good Germans which is why Bush said he would veto the creation of both the Department of Homeland Security and the 9/11 Commission but now claims credit for their creation and the White House cooperated with the 9/11 Commission which is why the White House withheld documents and called the republicans on the Commission before Clarke testified and why the White House did not coordinate the attacks on the integrity and bipartisanship of the Commission and why Bush and Cheney negotiated with the Commission that the two of them would testfy one time only but never again since the dental xrays prove that Bush spoke with the CIA director everyday and did not ignore either the repeated warnings of the dangers of al Qaeda and Osama or the August 2001 intelligence briefing specifically warning of the upcoming 9/11 attacks because the United States is a nation with a mission and that mission is to bring freedom to every single person in the world which will cut the deficit in half if you do not count those parts of the deficit which will increase under Bush which is Clinton's fault but the boxes from China were labeled "Made in USA" which resulted in 2.6 million new jobs being created even though the $400 billion Medicare prescription drug decorative turkey was not labeled $550 billion and was passed without bribery or criminal deception and was not criminally promoted by the Bush administration using taxpayers' money for propaganda purposes which proves that government spending under Bush has gone down if you do not count the increased government spending under Bush which is Clinton's fault just as acts of terrorism have decreased since 9/11 if you do not count the increase in the number of acts of terrorism and Bush's plane to Baghdad was spotted because before Saddam bought the uranium and became an "urgent" but not an imminent threat which is Clinton's fault Bush had no plans on his desk to invade Iraq since the invasion was not planned before Bush took office even though it was the subject of his first national security council meeting in February 2001 and in December 2001 when plans for the invasion were being finalized Bush said he was focused on the military operations in Afghanistan and then the Carrier Costume Party was too far offshore for the Navy to make a large enough "Mission Accomplished" banner to describe the WMD we have found in Iraq some of which Saddam was giving to Osama for following Saddam's plans and using Iraqi hijackers on 9/11 which is Clinton's fault but everyone who pays income taxes got a tax cut which created 3 million new jobs and allowed Iraqi oil revenue to pay for the cost of the reconstruction of Iraq after the invasion by a small number of troops who would be greeted with floral program related activities except for the dead and wounded troops who are being brought home secretly which is Clinton's fault since Bush is the one who hugs the mothers and the widows and the wives and the kids and since Bush does not watch television news he did not know about the republican torture pranks occurring in Iraq until he saw the pictures while watching television news and that is why Bush who will use the jawbone of an ass to force OPEC to open the spigots and who is responsible for good economic numbers but not bad economic numbers which are Clinton's fault wrote the poem that he did not write blaming Laura for dropping the dog.

Ridiculing Bush for his compulsive and incessant lying needs to become common.

FIRE THE LIAR

[Richard D]

5. An 859 word sentence!

You beat Victor Hugo by 30 words.

[snippy]

6. It started out somewhat shorter but kept growing as I updated it.

I quit the updates quite a while ago or it would be even longer.

[Batgirl]

7. The past 5 years just flashed before my eyes

That's seriously good. Making the litany of deception into a run-on sentence conveys the sense of how relentlessly we've been terrorized by our own rulers with a nonstop bombardment of lies.

You actually made a piece of art here.

[snippy]

8. Thank you. Perhaps I should title it.

What do you think about:

Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job

[Batgirl]

9. Don't know, but I recommended

the thread for that post. It's a stand-alone piece.

[Lasher]

3. Decades of patient effort??

"We have set out to help the people of the Middle East transform their societies. Now is not the time to falter or fade."

Just who is "we", Condi?? I don't remember seeing that one run through the Senate. And what's this "...decades of patient effort" crap? What happened to the carpet of flowers that was supposed to have been sprinkled before our troops by the grateful Iraqis? I thought this war wasn't going to cost us anything, and it was going to be over quickly. What happened to that?

What we are seeing here is a demonstration of the neocons' determination to pursue their PNAC agenda. You would think that after we so badly stepped on our collective foot in Iraq, that these morans would back off a little on their insane obsession to invade the rest of the Middle East and make them liken unto our own image.

Not so! This rhetoric is clear evidence that these people intend to keep pushing their failed agenda of world conquest.

[Auntie Bush]

4. And I wonder who will be putting that $510 billion in their pocket or

Blind Trust Fund? Blind like Frist's. If Halliburton/Cheney are getting over 3200% raise in stock prices now....how much will it be to in another 5 years. It makes me want to vomit :puke: at the thought of all those war mongers/killers/crooks making such obscene amounts of money.

[RaleighNCDUer]

10. In five years Halliburton will be bankrupt, and its execs (those not

in prison) will have skipped the country with their fortunes while their underlings have no jobs or pensions.

They are out to soak the taxpayers, and that will come to a screeching halt as soon as a new administration comes into power.