Reply #4: A couple simple ones... [View All]

[nyhuskyfan]

He said he saw the first plane hit the WTC on TV before entering the classroom.

He claimed that he brought about a patients' bill of rights in Texas as a governor, when he in fact vetoed it and then when it got enough votes to become veto-proof, he sent it through without his signature.

He stood in front of Kofi Annan and said that Saddam refused to let the inspectors in, when in fact, inspectors were in Iraq months before we started the war.

He also claimed that he met Ken Lay after becoming governor and that he supported Ann Richards in the first governor race in Texas. In fact, Lay gave some chump change to Richards and much more to Bush.

He has a way of completely misleading without technically lying, as well. When he was making the case for the Iraq war, he said something to the effect of, "I read the IAEA report today that said Saddam was six months away from a nuclear weapon. I don't know what else you need." The implication was that the report was new and that this was an urgent issue. The IAEA had stated something to that effect in a report from 1991, in the aftermath of the first Gulf War. Of course, Bush could have read that 1991 report the morning that he made his statement, so he wasn't technically lying, but it was grossly misleading.

That's the way they operate on just about every policy matter there is. Clear Skies, Healthy Forests, by far the vast majority of my tax cuts go to the bottom, the average family receives over $1,000 in tax relief, No Child Left Behind, using Saddam and 9/11 in the same sentence over and over again to imply the connection without going as far as to say that explicity, and on and on and on.