Yet Another Deception
We, the People of the United States of America, need to face the fact that we were lied to by the President of the United States.
When Joe Wilson pointed out that the Iraq had not sought “yellow cake” uranium from Niger the administration quickly rebutted the argument with selected information leaked from quickly declassified documents. The intelligence community already knew that the previous information contained in those documents had been disputed, but the Bush administration used it to protect their decision to go to war. The public quickly became confused when supporters of the president echoed these untruths over and over again. Even with Joe Wilson on lecture tour pointing out the lies of the Bush administration the attack dogs echoed that he was but one discredited witness, yet another lie.
When the Downing Street memo came out, supporters of the president used everything in their power to dismiss them as wild speculation or misinterpretation by the aid taking the notes. Since these memos were not official documents, why should they be believed? And, the public was quickly confused again. The echo chamber of the right continued to claim that there were problems with these documents putting doubt in the general public’s collective mind.
Throughout the 2004 election campaign the president refused to be questioned by serious reporters. When John Kerry won all three debates the Republicans shrugged their collective shoulders and said that George had a few of bad days. Although the public was a little wary about what they were being told the organized “Swift Boat” campaign confused the public once again. The lies of these people made the war hero and anti-war protester John Kerry look inferior to the draft dodging George W Bush. And, enough of the people were confused to re-elect the most incompetent president in US history.
Today, yet another deception has been place in the general public for scrutiny. George W Bush claimed that the long sought after weapons of mass destruction had been uncovered in May of 2003. This information was proclaimed as justification for our illegal, immoral and unethical invasion of Iraq. But, the truth was that these trailers that the president spoke of were already known not to be the biolabs that we sought. Either the president was out of the loop, or he was purposely misleading the American people once again. Either way, we need to ask ourselves why anyone would want this guy running our government? But, if we take the full picture into account it certainly looks more likely that the White House has been misleading the American people all along.
If this is true, what should be done about it? Impeachment would only lead to the even scarier scenario, President Richard Cheney. But, an investigation could certainly shed some light on the extent of this deception. Unfortunately, the loyalty of the Republican Party knows no bounds. They protect their own by concealing everything that they can. The Republicans are afraid that the house of cards may come tumbling down. Just look at what has been revealed in the relatively benign investigation of the Valarie Plame CIA leak. The only solution left to the American people is to vote the rascals out. If the Democrats are able to get control of either the House of Representatives or the Senate they will finally be able to launch investigations and get to the bottom of these deceptions. Then the American people will finally be able to know the full extent of the corruption of the Republican Party and the White House.
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