Bush/Cheney Caught Lying Again

News came out yesterday that a National Intelligence Estimate says Iran stopped work on building nukes several years ago and, once again, Bush and Cheney have been caught trying to lie this country into a disastrous over over fake claims of America getting nuked by non existent weapons.  Why does anyone believe anything these people say?

The saber rattling and war mongering at Iran has been deja vu all over again, the exact same strategy they used against Iraq.  The constant drumbeat of lies and threats and nuclear fears were rolled out for the sequel.  Will Americans fall for it again, especially now that the truth has been revealed?  Probably.

People are wont to believe what they want to believe.  The UN and the weapons inspectors told us before the invasion of Iraq  that Saddam didn't have wmd's but Bush, Cheney and the rest of them continued to lie about it anyway.  They'll do the same now.  The fact the UN is right, again, will make no difference to the multitudes already brainwashed and prepped for war.

The only course of action to prevent another catastrophe is impeachment.  Bush made these statements AFTER this NIE was written.  This should shock every American as proof that our President is recklessly seeking to attack another country under false pretenses.  He has lied to us to justify this course of action.  Again.

Comments

[tyler]

Man, how times flies...it seems like only yesterday the President Bush said...

"Heavy as they are, the costs of action must be weighed against the price of inaction. If Saddam defies the world and we fail to respond, we will face a far greater threat in the future. Saddam will strike again at his neighbors; he will make war on his own people. And mark my words, he will develop weapons of mass destruction. He will deploy them, and he will use them. Because we're acting today, it is less likely that we will face these dangers in the future."

Replace "Iraq" with "Iran" and "Saddam" with "Ahmadinejad".

Scary.

Have a great day :)

[tyler]

And it seems like only yesterday the Vice President said this...

"Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power."

Again, do the same replacements...

The President and Vice President are banging the war gongs!

[John Morgan]

Precisely tyler. The difference this time we have to stop them.

[tyler]

John...hate to say this...but i used this before when debating the "Bush lied" debates with some of my liberal friends.

It wasn't President Bush who said the first quote...it was President Clinton to justify his rocket attacks into Iraq.

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/12/16/transcripts/clinton.html

And it wasn't Vice President Cheney who uttered the 2nd quote...it was Vice President Gore. In 2002 no less.

I just use that as an example of how everyone believed the intel at the time, and that was that Iraq did have a WMD program. Doesnt mean Clinton lied anymore than Bush did...it means they put their trust in our intelligence gathering departments and based their decisions upon that.

As for Iran, just because they sususpended their nuclear arms program, it doesnt mean they stopped it.

And while I agree that a premeptive strike against Iran makes no sense (I;ve sent you links about it before) and I am not sure we currently have the man power to sustain a ground attack...it doesnt mean they are not a threat and should not continue to have economic and diplomatic pressure put on them due to their constant interference in the Iraqi rebuilding effort. Toss is the fact that their leader is a nutball who wants Israel wiped off the map...and we have a country that must be dealt with.

Have a great day :)

Go Steelers.