Bush and his Lies

A fairly interesting article deconstructing some of Bush’s seemingly perpetual lying:
bq. “On Sept. 7, meeting with British Prime Minister Tony Blair at Camp David, Bush told reporters: “I would remind you that when the inspectors first went into Iraq and were denied, finally denied access, a report came out of the Atomic — the IAEA — that they were six months away from developing a weapon. I don’t know what more evidence we need.”
The IAEA did issue a report in 1998, around the time weapons inspectors were denied access to Iraq for the final time, but the report made no such assertion. It declared:
bq. “Based on all credible information to date, the IAEA has found no indication of Iraq having achieved its program goal of producing nuclear weapons or of Iraq having retained a physical capability for the production of weapon-useable nuclear material or having clandestinely obtained such material.” The report said Iraq had been six to 24 months away from nuclear capability before the 1991 Gulf War.”
They break-down a whole other group of his recent lies. Now, I accept politicians are very fluid with facts, but such colossal reversals of meaning denote either Bush is so stupid he doesn’t know what he is talking about, or that he is so stupid because he can’t lie properly without getting uncovered. How can Americans genuinely take him seriously????

Posted by Ian at October 23, 2002 06:56 PM | TrackBack §