Reply #27: Old GOP tricks--terrorize the citizens and lie. [View All]

[connors]

GOP Manipulation of the truth and the “Big Lie” 

Don’t lose sight of these two points! In the run-up to this
Iraq war:
43 continually changed the rationale for our involvement in
the Iraq 2 war!
43 continually stated that the “secret information” he
possessed couldn’t be divulged because it would jeopardize
“sources and methods”!

What did he say about Iraq, in the fall of 2002, to coerce the
Congressional Democrats to pass his Iraq Resolution?  He
smirked and mangled words to the effect that Hussein possessed
an arsenal of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) ready for use,
and that Hussein therefore was an imminent threat to the U.S.

On February 26th, 2003 43’s made another speech. In it the
justification for Iraq 2 was subtly changed to that of being
to make “Iraq as a shining Model of freedom for the Middle
East”! Prior to that the rationale for war was, “regime
change”! Still another time it was, “Hussein must disarm”! Yet
again it was, “Hussein must comply with the U.N. inspections”.
43 and his team brought up “human rights atrocities” and
“failure to comply with U.N. resolutions” also. Of course
there was one real objective from the very first to the
last,-—to muddle the issue!

On the Sunday, June 13th 2003 Talk shows, 43’s team used these
shadings of truth to distance 43 from being labeled the
outright multiple liar he is!

In “This Week”, George Stephanopoulos asked Rumsfeld about why
the WMD have as yet failed to turn up. Stephanopoulos played
footage of the War Secretary saying the WMD were around
Tikrit. Rumsfeld had his nose rubbed in it, so he started
dissembling. Rumsfeld had to claim that the DOD knew where
they were. He went on to mutter something about how can anyone
know where they currently are. Rumsfeld arrogantly said,
"They can be moved."  

Of course they can, and the evil blood sucker should have said
that when he made that earlier speech!  When he made that
earlier remark, his intention was to convince the country that
an immediate preemptive attack on Iraq was necessary-helping
43 in his effort to do so!

Rumsfeld said that the word “were” is different than the word
“are”. Doesn’t that sound like, “it depends on what the
meaning of is, is”? We all know that the GOP used Clinton’s
usage of tortured logic, as exemplified in that phrase, to
impeach him!

In “Meet the Press” Senator Graham was asked whether the
director of the CIA, George Tenet, should resign. Russert was
referring to the sixteen words in 43’s State of the Union—one
of the first of many lies that 43 has been exposed of
committing, so far. Graham said what all of us know. His
remark that George Tenet is not the source of the problem is
borne out by easily researchable public knowledge. After all
Tenet, just as recently as October, successfully removed it
from another one of the president’s speeches. These lies were
rejected by Powell, just days after 43’s duplicitous State of
the Union, who wouldn't include them in his U.N. speech,
because he knew them to be false. 

Graham continued by stating that Mr. Wilson, the former
ambassador, was sent to Niger in response to the vice
president’s questions about the sixteen words. Somehow the
vice president expects us to believe he was unable to
communicate to the State of the Union speech writers--the
entire intelligence bureaucracy that reviews the speech, and
his boss, that Hussein didn’t attempt to get uranium from
Africa? There is no credible explanation to that other than
43’s team is lying, yet again!

Graham can be dismissed by the disinterested masses as being a
Democrat with Presidential aspirations. How about Chuck Hagel
who was on CNN NEWSNIGHT with Aaron Brown on July 14th?
Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska is a member of the
Senate Select Intelligence Committee. Hagel, about the sixteen
words and Tenet’s role in them, is quoted as saying, “Well, it
isn't just George Tenet that's involved in this intelligence
issue. Many people have had their, and still do, arms wrapped
around this, the vice president and his office, Secretary
Rumsfeld, Secretary Powell, Dr. Rice. To say that the CIA
director was the one who alone signed off on and had the
influence on putting those 16 words in the president's State
of the Union message is not just quite accurate here.
Now, come on, the reality is all these people are involved in
our intelligence process and so we need to know what happened.
We need to go wider and deeper not just in the 16 words but is
there a problem with our intelligence? Is there a process
problem? Is there a problem getting it to the decision makers?
Is there a flaw here somewhere?” 

If any of us hears another word about Nigerian or African
nuclear material, or the British being the source of the
intelligence, or anything related to these particular lies, we
will vomit! That is precisely what 43’s team is attempting to
accomplish! The sooner the masses are fed up with the better
for 43 as Dr. Rice stated that there are literally thousands
of data points involved in the U.S military‘s decision of
preemptively attacking Iraq. If the first whoppers have been
exposed as lies, how will the remaining, at a minimum, 999
fare? 

Back in the period of the run-up to 43 pushing us into Iraq 2
there were articles in the progressive media such as, “The
Pentagon Muzzles the CIA” by Robert Dreyfuss of December 16,
2002. A quote follows, “Even as it prepares for war against
Iraq, the Pentagon is already engaged on a second front: its
war against the Central Intelligence Agency. The Pentagon is
bringing relentless pressure to bear on the agency to produce
intelligence reports more supportive of war with Iraq,
according to former CIA officials. Key officials of the
Department of Defense are also producing their own unverified
intelligence reports to justify war. Much of the questionable
information comes from Iraqi exiles long regarded with
suspicion by CIA professionals. A parallel, ad hoc
intelligence operation, in the office of Undersecretary of
Defense for Policy Douglas J. Feith, collects the information
from the exiles and scours other raw intelligence for useful
tidbits to make the case for preemptive war. 
These morsels sometimes go directly to the president.”

There have been many other similar columns describing the DIA
Cabal and how it fed 43 lies that he regurgitated to the
American public. The cooked stories had a common goal—to scare
the U.S. populace so that 43 could force Democrats in Congress
to agree with his absurd estimation that Hussein was an
imminent threat to the U.S. 

At the time during the run-up to Iraq 2, 43's own CIA could
not be forced to say that Hussein was an imminent threat to
the U.S. As a matter of fact, the CIA stated that the only way
that Hussein would conceivably use WMD was if he thought the
noose was imminently going around his neck. Since 1991 Hussein
hadn't used WMD. What possible thought pattern could decide
that he was an imminent threat? 

43’s team has interpreting polls and manipulating the red
state voters down to a science! How else could Rove and his
minions have figured a way to get the majority of people in
the U.S. to believe that Hussein was involved in 9-11?

I don’t like what is happening now. Rice, the national
security adviser, was quoted as saying, “It is ludicrous to
suggest that the president of the United States went to war on
the question of whether Saddam Hussein sought uranium from
Africa."  She, as Rumsfeld was, was talking around the
point, to numb our populace. They are so willing to swallow
spoon fed lies by 43’s team, and the current evil Grand Old
Party group will do anything to gain an advantage. The sheer
hubris of their plans will soon be the cause of the downfall!

Ms. Rice was guarded in her comments on a few of the talks
shows. On Fox, 43’s exclusive pipeline to the masses of
disinterested U.S. citizens, they desperately were attempting
to downplay the sixteen words. She was lobbed a softball and
hit it out of park saying, "This was part of a very broad
case that the president laid out in the State of the Union and
other places." 

I can see the common U.S. citizen, a disinterested voter
swilling a beer and nodded in agreement, before nodding off in
a daze of alcohol and Fox cable TV propaganda induced torpor.

Fox, the Cable TV show for those who would emulate their
soul-mate, “the leader of the free world who doesn’t do
nuances”, uses every chance it can to prop up 43. Do you know
that on Fox the U.S. has never suffered a casualty in the Iraq
2 war? On Fox, they never show those nasty scenes of
defenseless Iraqis becoming gory urban guerilla combat
casualties either. It is all goodness and light on Fox and Big
Brother 43 loves us all. Rice, given another chance to spiff
up reality, added that "not only was the statement
accurate, there were statements of this kind in the National
Intelligence Estimate. And the British themselves stand by
that statement to this very day."

She conveniently didn’t mention that England’s Tony Blair is
in extreme jeopardy as a result of his part in joining 43’s
team. In England the populace assumes that enough time has
passed for the WMD to be discovered, if they were indeed in a
state that made them an imminent threat. No one in Fox, or in
his official team, mentions that 43’s image of the straight
talking leader, is taking a huge hit because of these lies.

You have to excuse my temporary digression. I'm of the
generation that heard "Tricky Dick" say he had a
"secret plan" to get us out of the Vietnam War. As
soon as he said that I knew it was a lie. Yeah, I don't
believe a bloody word that any one of the phony GOP presidents
ever has said! Since Nixon got Ford to give him a pardon, you
have to take the GOP for what they are-a bunch of lying
weasels! A perfect historical precedent for 43's current
predicament is Reagan. Remember that Ollie North took the fall
for the Iran-Contra scandal, because Ronnie was "out of
the loop". B.S., in the military the Commander in Chief
is where the ultimate authority resides. If North was guilty,
then so was Ronnie. If 43 reads lies in his state of the union
speech, he must take the fall! 

You know who the author of this quote is, "A definite
factor in getting a lie believed is the size of the lie. The
broad mass of the people, in the simplicity of their hearts,
more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small
one." 

No one other than Adolph Hitler said that phrase. 43's team
understands it well! For sheer audacity, what about the boob,
who dared dress up in a Top Gun outfit for an unnecessary jet
flight to a U.S. aircraft carrier on May 1 to declare victory
over Iraq? The USS Abraham Lincoln emblazoned the sign
“Mission Accomplished”. The GOP is big on simple minded signs
for their disinterested voters. Not one major media outlet
said that this simian chump ducked out on his military
service, possibly going AWOL, and getting protected by his
father’s influence. No one mentioned that since the easy part
of the Iraq 2 War, the “Shock and Awe” portion is over, that
the hardest part, the occupation, is going atrociously. 

How can he explain away his lies and lack of planning to the
families of grieving U.S. boys and girls who are “collateral
damage” in the “guerilla warfare” segment of this war? There
is nothing as cruel as what the U.S. soldiers are being forced
to endure now. Every Iraqi man, woman and child has to be
viewed as a possible attacker by our youthful soldiers. The
stress that our over-utilized troops are being put through now
is overwhelming. His stupid, “Bring em on” comment is a bitter
pill for inconsolable U.S. families, plus it emboldens the
Iraqi resistance!

I’m a devotee of the Behavioral Sciences. I lived through the
devastating trauma that the Vietnam War caused in our country.
Most of the country was against the war, but still Nixon kept
us there. When the soldiers came home, there weren’t the
typical parades. We couldn’t celebrate that war, and we won’t
this one either! Our soldiers will not be given any of the
expected advantages they should get for their treacherous
work. No one will gain except for 43’s treachery other than
his vice president’s Halliburton‘s subsidiary Kellogg, Brown
and Root, and other GOP favored war profiteers.

It hurts my brain to try and get into the head of the man “who
would return honor and dignity to the white house”. His only
way to get past this is to say he was out of loop regarding
parroting lies generated for him by others in his group
regarding Hussein being an imminent threat. His plea will be
that he was not where the buck stops. The arrogant fool will
have vastly conflicting images to coalesce into one
presidential facade. Doesn’t this return the country to the
angst of the Nixon era? Only psychotics can accept the
contradictory claims of this regime. 

A quantity of, so-called sane, segments of our society will
want to attempt a dangerous game. They will try accept Big
Brother 43 as their benevolent leader, while simultaneously
trying to perceive his deceit. They will have to diminish the
impact of his lies in their consciousness. To do so will
require the ingestion of massive doses of analgesics, in
either the liquid or chemical form. Does the phrase, “Tune in
and Drop out” ring a bell? Also, the character Harry Haller,
from the book “Steppenwolf” would understand these pathetic
creatures as possessing a similar psychological adaptation as
that of the patrons of the “Madmen Only” bar.  The lyric, from
the Steppenwolf song, “Damn the Pusher”, “I see I lot of
people walking around with tomb stones in their eyes”, seems
appropriate!” Just substitute “Big Brother 43” for “The
Pusher”!

The U.S. is going through Emile Durkheim's "Anomie"
a state of "normlessness" in which depression and
suicide are prevalent, due to Bush's "everlasting wars
against terrorism".  No one knows what to expect and we
are all consequentially always on edge, thanks to Bush's
inciting the entire Islamic community against us. Anyone who
rides the subway in Washington D.C. is a text book example of
this phenomenon. 

Every day the subway loud speakers blast out warnings about
unattended packages and explosive sniffing dogs. Early this
summer some poor lost soul jumped in front of a subway and
committed suicide. In addition to the typical heartless
remarks such as, "they always do it during the rush
hour", comments from the truly terrified, such as,
"did they have explosives or WMD on them", symbolize
the pathetic state that savvy D.C. people are being forced to
experience. Thank you Big Brother 43!

Also, D.C. residents never bother listening to Herr Ridge's
Terrorist Threat Level reports because we assume that the
authorities are lying to us. We assume that they would
willingly offer us up to bin laden to keep the Federal
Government working. If the Federal Government isn't working
then Big Brother Bush can't rape and pillage the world!

How does he swagger around as the Commander-in-Chief who did
the “Mission Accomplished” scam on the one hand, and on the
other say he was out of the loop? In terms of culpability, the
man in charge is responsible. He lied to us and his lies
forced the country into a war that didn't need to be started!
That is serious, big-time, lying and reaches the level of
impeachable offenses! 


B. Connors