To say Bush is a liar is to say Martha Stewart is a home maker. George Bush is an Uber Liar and he learned his stock and trade from a master:
"All this was inspired by the principle - which is quite true in itself - that in the big lie there is always a certain force of credibility; because the broad masses of a nation are always more easily corrupted in the deeper strata of their emotional nature than consciously or voluntarily; and thus in the primitive simplicity of their minds they more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not believe that others could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously. Even though the facts which prove this to be so may be brought clearly to their minds, they will still doubt and waver and will continue to think that there may be some other explanation." Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
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Jospeh Goebbels had a more sucinct definition of the Big Lie:
"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State." - Joseph Goebbels
The Truth is the Mortal Enemy of the Lie.
Bush's Big Lie:
"The United States and other nations have pursued patient and honorable efforts to disarm the Iraqi regime without war"
"Peaceful efforts to disarm the Iraqi regime have failed again and again -- because we are not dealing with peaceful men"
"Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised"
"It (Iraq) has a deep hatred of America and our friends. And it has aided, trained and harbored terrorists, including operatives of al Qaeda"
"Today, no nation can possibly claim that Iraq has disarmed"
"Many Iraqis can hear me tonight in a translated radio broadcast, and I have a message for them. If we must begin a military campaign, it will be directed against the lawless men who rule your country and not against you" George W. Bush - Declaring War on Iraq
Bush's BIG LIE deconstructed:
Other nations in the tiny `coalition of the willing' may have pursued patient and honorable efforts to `disarm' an already disarmed Iraq, but not the United States. The United States lied to the world about Iraq's WMD capabilities. The United States manufactured intelligence, used other intelligence dishonestly and began military operations against Iraq in the Fall of 2002.
Peaceful efforts to disarm the already disarmed Iraqi regime failed because those peaceful United Nations efforts were sabotaged by the United States. The ONLY reason the United States went to the UN in the first place is because Tony Blair HAD to get UN approval before his ministers would give the go ahead for war. AND the UN never did give their blessing to the war as the second resolution could not pass and had to be withdrawn.
The intelligence gathered to prove Iraq had WMDs was cooked and fixed. It was dodgy and plagiarized from 10 year old college papers found on the internet. Colin Powell did a dog and pony show in front of the UN that he knew was a lie. The charge that Iraq aided and abetted terrorists including al Qaeda was a lie. Yellow cake, aluminum rods, drone planes, mobile weapons labs - all LIES.
Iraq was completely disarmed of any WMD capability before the war began. Any claim to the contrary was a lie.
George Bush and members of his administration willingly misled the Congress, lied about their reasons for going to war and betrayed the trust of the American People with high crimes and misdemeanors. To this day, they still lie, obfuscate, deceive and betray our trust.
On Tuesday Bush is going to go in front of the world and lie some more. He'll talk about progress and freedom and staying the course. He'll talk about the damage that nay-sayers do to the war effort and how opposing the war threatens our troops. He'll say everyday the Iraqis get closer to defending themselves and when they can defend themselves our troops will come home. He'll say that democracy and freedom is spreading across the Middle East, except for Iran which continues to pose great dangers to progress with their religious extremism and push toward nuclear weapons.
But everything he says will be a lie. Because that is what they do.
They have used the Big Lie developed by Hitler and his men in textbook style. But now the greatest fear of the liars is coming home to roost - the truth.