The Big Lie of George W. Bush

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From The Hill’s Pundits Blog:

The Big Lie of George W. Bush

Brent Budowsky

It is repeated today by Republicans on the floor of the Senate and restated on this site, only yesterday, and it goes like this:

The Democrats have an al Qaeda problem, and this war, which was started with the Big Lie that claimed it was necessary to defeat bin Laden, must be continued to promote the Big Lie that to change the policy would help the terrorists, when the exact opposite is true.

How odd that the title of Al Gore’s brilliant film, “An Inconvenient Truth,” is used to repeat this falsehood, when Gore’s brilliant book, The Assault on Reason, was the most sweeping and devastating destruction of this lie that created 3,600 Gold Star Mothers and allowed bin Laden to escape, regroup and gain strength.

George Bush and John McCain will be proven right about Iraq? No, the only question left is how many must continue to die for the vile, wrong, self-destructive war and how far the Senate Republicans will go to let this travesty continue, even though most of them know it is wrong, even though it is the cancer that is destroying the Republican Party.

The new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) is not an argument to continue the status quo disaster but an argument to end it…

The NIE makes it clear that George Bush’s Iraq war has created more terrorists than it killed, diverted both our military and intelligence from the real threat, and destabilized and destroyed our global military force structures at the very moment Bush’s policies have created more terrorists and allowed bin Laden to regroup and gain strength.

Democrats have an al Qaeda problem?...

America has an al Qaeda problem, and the reason is George W. Bush, who lacked the vigilance before Sept. 11, and then shamefully exploited Sept. 11 for a policy of delusion and destruction that the American people, and our friends throughout the free world, want ended here, now, once and for all.

Budowsky was an aide to former Sen. Lloyd Bentsen and to Bill Alexander, then-chief deputy whip of the House. He is a contributing editor to Fighting Dems News Service. He can be read on The Hill’s Pundits Blog and reached at [email protected].

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Carolyn Kay
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The excerpt above is posted with the full knowledge and permission, even encouragement, of the author, who wants his essays to be read by as many people as possible.