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GEORGE W BUSH a.k.aGEORGE THE LIAR |
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The Secret of a Great George Bush Lie
A few years ago some researchers did an experiment with three year old children. They were left alone in a room for 5 minutes with a cake and told not to eat any. When the researchers came back every single child had eaten some cake, but they all denied it repeatedly against all the evidence. The researchers decided that three year olds do lie but they are not very good at it.
I believe they were wrong. The children were at a great disadvantage because the cake was right there in the room. Actually repeatedly denying the facts in the face of all evidence is a great strategy. But there is one condition. If the evidence is far far away from the people you are lying to, and they are never likely to see it with their own eyes then continuous bare faced lying can be very effective. For a little while at least; hell it got me a second term didn't it (even if I did have to cheat a bit)!
SOME OF MY FAVORITE LIES BY GEORGE W. BUSH
| The Lie | The Truth |
| "Iraq
has weapons of mass destruction." This was the lie we kept on repeating BEFORE the war to persuade folks we had to invade |
We
knew Saddam didn't have jack shit. The U.N. weapons inspector Hans
Blix kept telling us he didn't. |
"We
found the weapons of mass destruction" |
We didn't find diddley squat, all Saddam actually had was a dozen knitting needles, a pair of nunchukas and a rusty cheesegrater. |
"Saddam
Hussain had links with Al Qaeda." |
Saddam was a secualar westernised dictator. Bin Laden is a radical religious fundementalist. They hated each other. There were never any links between them. We knew this all along. The 9/11 commission confirmed it. |
"The
United States and our partners have disrupted at least ten serious
al-Qaeda terrorist plots since September 11--including three al-Qaeda
plots to attack inside the United States." |
Every
one of these plots we claimed to have disrupted had actually been
abandoned by the time it was discovered. |
"I
don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." |
In 2004, a year before Katrina, Homeland Security and the Federal Emergency Management Agency ran an exercise called “Hurricane Pam” that estimated a Category 3 hurricane hitting New Orleans. It found that flood waters would surge over levees, creating “a catastrophic mass casualty/mass evacuation” and leaving drainage pumps crippled for up to six months. |
" I will ask Congress to provide $100 million to support the exchange of debt relief for the protection of tropical forests,'' Thats me in Miami on Aug. 25. 2000 |
We
provided no money for this program but instead diverted $13 million
from the Agency for International Development. |
“Well, hey, listen, we’ve never been 'stay the course,' George" Thats me, October 23, 2006 Discussing Iraq policy in an interview with George Stephanopoulos of CBS, |
Staying the course has been the mainstay of our Iraq policy. It is a phrase I have repeated time and again.
"We
will stay the course; we will complete the job in Iraq."
And that’s why we’re
going to stay the course in Iraq. And that’s why when
we say something in Iraq; we’re going to do it. "And my message today to those in Iraq is:
We’ll stay the course. "
"We will stay the course until the job is done,
Steve. And the temptation is to try to get the President or somebody
to put a timetable on the definition of getting the job done. We’re
just going to stay the course. "
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