So the White House admits that the Iraq-Niger nuclear connection was “wrong” and “incorrect.” Woo hoo! It doesn’t take a nucular scientist to realize that if you know something is “wrong” and “incorrect” and you say it anyway, it’s a “lie.” Ask any 6-year-old.
The. President. lied.
Not that anyone really cares, but it makes me feel better. As Steve Burgess said in a Salon piece about why the U.S. should invade Canada:
“The Bush administration’s labored justifications for the Iraq invasion, served up as convincingly as a chocolate-smeared 6-year-old’s explanation of where the cookies went, proved to be utterly irrelevant. Most Americans, it turned out, were only too happy to kick some non-American ass and didn’t really require an explanation.”
The president lied?
What year is this?
I guess it’s okay to lie to the citizenry. Just don’t perjure.
But he lied to protect us! Why can’t you yellow-bellied liberal pinko-commie faggot cowards get it through your thick skulls!!!?!? Daddy knows what’s right; Daddy has our best interests at heart.
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I go now.
I don’t see – in that article – where it says that the White House and President Bush new the Iraq-Niger correction was “wrong” and “incorrect” when they first found the information. So they made a mistake, and yes it is a big deal, and I do care, but
The. President. Did. Not. Lie.
The President. Made. A. Mistake.It is possible for people to make mistakes, and I’m sure you know this allready, but it bothers me that you either didn’t know that they made a mistake and did not lie, or ignored it. I hope you can give me a good “talk back” and/or explanation of why you’re accusing him of lying.
Sincerely,
Micah
*knew
Their intelligence people had determined long in advance of his speech that the Nigerian uranium stuff was absolute bull, and yet he asserted it as genuine in his State of the Union Address. Since when is that not lying?
For it not to have been a deliberate distortion of the facts on his part, either one or more of his underlings had to lie to him, or there had to be multiple instances of gross incompetence all up the chain of command. Either way, someone has a job that they aren’t qualified for.
The buck stops with the President. If an underling (like Karl Rove) lies to the President, it’s still the President’s responsibility to step up to the mic and put on the record that his State of the Union address contained innacuracies. A White House press release after Ari Fleischer says, “Nothing new here,” is insufficient.
And don’t you dare mention Clinton. He was wrong for lying, too, though matters of ejaculation are not as important as matters of state.
I thought I mentioned Clinton. Kinda. Although I always say the opposite of what I mean, like the yin half of some bizarre native society in a logic puzzle.