Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Maddow- POLITICO Making Up Stuff Siding With The Right Meanwhile Bush Repeating Lies About iraq and Torture

the two most essential lies -- among the many -- in his new memoir are that he had a legitimate reason to invade Iraq, and that he had a legitimate reason to torture detainees.


Quote by Dan Fromkin Huffington Post

Politico moving to the far right. Joining what they believe will be the winning side.



Meanwhile Bush and his Media cronies are rewriting history to ultimately create the impression Bush was one of America's greatest presidents.
He should instead be indicted and incarcerated.
As Dan froomkin illustrates that Bush committed at least two major crimes: Invading Iraq without just cause and authorizing the use of torture. Both did nothing to enhance America's security and has had a negative effect on America's reputation.

The Two Most Essential, Abhorrent, Intolerable Lies Of George W. Bush's Memoir by Dan Froomkin Huffington Post, Nov. 22,2010

WASHINGTON -- These days, when we think of George W. Bush, we think mostly of what a horrible mess he made of the economy. But his even more tragic legacy is the loss of our moral authority, and the transformation of the United States of America from global champion of human rights into an outlaw nation.

History is likely to judge Bush most harshly for two things in particular: Launching a war against a country that had not attacked us, and approving the use of cruel and inhumane interrogation techniques.

And that's why the two most essential lies -- among the many -- in his new memoir are that he had a legitimate reason to invade Iraq, and that he had a legitimate reason to torture detainees.

Neither is remotely true. But Bush must figure that if he keeps making the case for himself -- particularly if it goes largely unrebutted by the traditional media, as it has thus far -- then perhaps he can blunt history's verdict.

It may even be working. Extrapolating from the response to the book, former vice president Dick Cheney on Tuesday told a crowd gathered for Bush's presidential library groundbreaking in Dallas that "judgments are a little more measured than they were" and that "history is coming around."


and so it goes,
GORD.

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