Boy am I relieved that we are no longer at war with Iraq! Bush himself says so! Read the following:
http://news.yahoo.com/...
Because if we are no longer at war, well then Bush is no longer a wartime president and we don't need those pesky Patriot Act nuisances or warrantless wiretaps, do we?
This is an amazing article and tops even my usual contempt for this Administration's outright lies. Some money quotes below:
President Bush marked the anniversary of the Iraq war Sunday by touting the efforts to build democracy there and avoiding any mention of the daily violence that rages three years after he ordered an invasion. The president didn't utter the word "war." "We are implementing a strategy that will lead to victory in Iraq," the president assured a public that is increasingly skeptical that he has a plan to end the fighting after the deaths of more than 2,300 U.S. troops
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Bush did not mention the insurgent attacks, the car bombs or the mounting Iraqi deaths in a two-minute statement to reporters outside the White House after returning from a weekend at Camp David. Avoiding the word "war," he called the day "the third anniversary of the beginning of the liberation of Iraq."
So this is a liberation, not a war? Something to celebrate, I guess. Lord have mercy. And of course Cheney has his own delicious spin (well if you want to call vomit delicious):
In an interview on CBS' "Face the Nation," Cheney flatly rejected a statement made earlier Sunday by Iraq's former interim prime minister that the increasing attacks killing dozens each day across his country can only be described as a civil war. "If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is," Ayad Allawi told the British Broadcasting Corp.
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Cheney blamed the negative perception on news coverage of the daily violence instead of the progress being made toward democracy. "There is a constant sort of perception, if you will, that's created because what's newsworthy is the car bomb in Baghdad," the vice president said. "It's not all the work that went on that day in 15 other provinces."
Oh, it's the media that has distorted the picture, oh what a relief. I just hate that constant sort of perception, don't you? We should just listen to these fellas, no more war, oh happy day, no negative perceptions, celebrate the liberation!
I know about denial. I know about arrogance. But this is just plain lies. Lies. Lies. Lies.