Why does the Bush Admin lie?
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I think a better question would be why do politicians lie. Every administration deceives the public to some degree, some are more insidious than others. However, it is impossible to answer such an open ended question without more detail. The Bush administration covers a lot of potential people and you do not list any specific proposed lie. Provide a verifiable fact which has been lied about and the person who committed the act. Then we can discuss the basis and factual weight of your indictment properly. Anything else is just pundit bias.\n\nkehkohjones: Get off your high horse. I made a legitimate request for the questioner to be specific. I have not discussed any details of what I know, or do not know. Further some of your contentions are erroneous and false, your sources are so liberally biased it is just laughable, so kindly take your own advice.\n\nkehkohjones: You're right, adults discuss and debate. They do not go on endless tirades and sling epithets like idiot and blind fanatical sheep. Is this what passes for intelligent debate in your world. Additionally, I am familiar with the links you posted as well as Prescott Bush' connections with Germany. Would you like a list of other prominent Americans who had dealings with Nazi Germany because it is long and presitigious. I can respect the fact that you do not like the administration, but you are incapable of extending the same respect in reverse as is evidenced by your posts. I don't waste my time debating issues with people who consider attempted character assassinations legitimate debate tactics. You see you have no knowledge of what my opinion of the administration is as I have not stated it one way or the other, but already you have assigned a position to me. This tells me without question that it makes no difference what I post you are not going to give it weight or due consideration unless I fall into the same lockstep mentality you follow. So get over yourself and have a nice day.\n\nYour are too amusing. I might be offended if you hadn't kept me laughing so hard this whole exchange. Your convoluted view of your own self worth is remarkable, all the while claiming superior adult attitudes while childishly denigrating others. Yes I for one am definitely impressed. Since it is obvious that the questioner is not going to expand the details of his question I am through with this post. Again have a nice day.
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why is Kerry more to blame for exposing truth than Bush for lying his *** off?\n\nBush has yet to apologize for:\n\n* Election fraud.\n\n* Insulting all America by misusing 9/11 for his own political schemes.\n\n* Awarding no-bid contracts to his cronies.\n\n* Sending out troops into harm's way without adequate planning or equipment.\n\n* Lying every time he opens his mouth.\n\n* Driving down America's prestige worldwide.\n\nor any number of other things.
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Of course he is, idoits are falling for this because they are simple minded and brain washed. Bush also lies about how he wants to help people, but waht about people in Hati. Theses people are suffering but too bad for them they don't have anything for Bush to take..
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yeah, like they need to get group shrink wrapped.\nBy now the truth is obvious. It was obvious to me from the start. They lied about everything and they lie about everything. Nothing they have done is for good. All of the Bush admin bills if read carefully are for evil. The "No child left behind act" is really just the "shut down public schools act." The imigration bills are just authorization of slavery bills. The patriot act is another example. Anything you look at, if you look deep, you see it written on everything the bush admin does. They are totally evil. The only way people don't know about it is by beliving the\nrepublican news.
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I answered that in your repeated question... these are out-dated lies, after more people got involved in Iraq, no one found what your bush claimed.
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because any bush supporter cannot rely on factual data in a fair debate, so they mirror their heros strategy and send up smoke to distract from a logical discourse. They flood the air with falsehoods and dispersions too numerous to respond to each one individually before the next is cast. It is a noble and patriotic thing to stand up to corruption in our governing bodies. If his last name wasn't Bush he'd be pumping gas instead of starting wars for it.
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What is all this bunk that Bush Lied?  Al Franken made these same comments on "Meet the Press" but he COULD NOT PROVE IT!  His only proof was, and this is pretty much word for word "because he's the president - he had to have fudged the evidence!"  \n\nALL of the evidence Bush used to convince congress to go to war, was collected under the Clinton administration, and was already WELL known by most of the ranking senators and congressmen.  The ONLY exception to this was the report that Saddam had been trying to purchase Uranium from Nigeria.  And this was collected by British intelligence - only later proven to be false.  The president has admitted, this last bit of intelligence was wrong, but his administration did not know that at the time!  And for the record, if you read the back pages of the papers (liberal media - burys it), the WMD's (mostly chemical) that Saddam was ordered to, and claimed were destroyed are being found all over the desert.  Not huge warehouse stockpiles, but banned weapons none the less.\n\nSecret warrentless wiretapping - from what I understand of this program, the wiretaps were only set on calls going to and from suspected terrorists OUTSIDE our country.  Listening to phone calls from suspected terrorists who are NOT citizens - and thus are not covered under the bill of rights.  The typical American has NOTHING to fear from this program.  This program actually helped to stop at least 2 known attacks, and who knows how many more, until a democratic whistle blower made it common knowledge!  If anyone dies in another attack that could have been prevented by this program - the New York Times and the whistle blowers should be charged with conspiracy to destroy our way of life.\n\nWhile the war in Iraq could have been handled differently, while numerous blunders have been made in the war on terror, and the Katrina response - Impeachment should not be used just because a political party disagrees with the president.  It should be reserved for cases where the president has demonstrated gross abuse of his authority, where the president HAS been found to be corrupt, where the president HAS been found to be lying.  Bush has made many questionable decisions, but as of yet has not done anything worthy of impeachment.\n\nClinton by comparison was investigated because of some shady financial dealings he and Hillary were involved with before running for President - Whitewater anyone?  Clinton also abused his authority as President to avoid a sexual harassment law-suite filed against him stemming from his days as Governor.  Both worthy causes for impeachment.  When it was discovered he was having yet another affair with Monica  - he was caught red handed in a lie to the grand jury.  Three strikes - usually means your out!
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Actually, tough as this might be to accept there are a number of reasons...\n\n- It has not been proven that he lied\n- It has not been proven that he broke any laws\n\nContrary to conspiracy theories, a republican led congress cannot prevent an impeachment if either of the above occur, or prevent an investigation or judicial hearing should the democrats push for one.\n\nReality, take a deep breath and try to take this in, as we can assume the democrats would drive for this the second they felt they could, it is a fairly safe assumption that President Bush has done nothing that would warrant his impeachment.\n\nSorry to burst your bubble...
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Absolutely.  Every "lie" I've checked out has turned to be a lie manufactured by Democrats.  \n\nA few examples:\n\n1) 'Hussein's govt tied to the planning of 9/11' -- he NEVER said that!  (I've read his speeches and it just isn't there.  From the beginning he spoke about the regime's various ways of supporting terrorists with money, camps, logistics, etc, NOT specifically the planning of 9/11..  and he said on Sept 22 2001 that he would go after states that HARBOR terrorists --as Iraq did!) \n\n2) 'Sent us to war only for WMDs.'  Again, I have read the actual resolution Congress passed authorizing him (have you read any of these things??!)and it lists MANY reasons; similarly, Bush gave a number of reasons (and was, in fact, criticized by the press at the time for NOT focusing on just ONE clear reason!)\n\n3) 'Said Iraq had WMDs, when he KNEW they did not.' It takes virtually NO research to discover that the Clinton administration, most in our intelligenct agencies, and major governments & intelligence agencies around the world widely agreed that Hussein DID have WMDs... for YEARS before Bush became President \n\n4) Going back to the one that started it all -- 'Stole' the 2000 election -- no, Gore TRIED to steal that election (though he NEVER led in a single recount, cherry-picked heavily Dem counties with Dems running the machinery for his recounts; said he wanted 'every vote counted' then fought to throw out hundreds of military absentee ballots on every manner of technicality; expressed outrage over claims of 'disenfranchisement' though a LIBERALLY dominated Civil Rights Commission could find NO evidence of this, started numerous court cases [and lost in EVERY court but the Florida Supreme which was ALL liberal Democrats])   [Also, DEMS have lied about the final Supreme Court decision which, on the SUBSTANCE of the complaints voted 7-2 in Bush's favor; the 5-4 decision was simply that there was not enough time for the problem to be remedied]\n\n5) Add all the other DEM lies & deceits  -- about the NSA program as 'domestic spying' (it is not) or being in violation of the law (FISA judges and the Supreme Court have said otherwise); talking about how horrible the economy is (ignoring widespread growth and VERY low unemployment) and presenting ONLY the difficulties in Iraq, not its successes (claiming that Bush declared it would all be a 'cakewalk'.. when he in fact said it would be difficult!);  offering support to Michael Moore (whose movie, even a number of liberal reviewers acknowledged was full of errors and deceitful inuendos [e.g. the whole Afghan pipeline thing, which happened under Clinton and ENDED in 1998!])\n\nSo, no, it is not BUSH's credibility I call into question!  (and this list was just a quick, off-the-top-of-my-head thing)  I do not agree with all his policies (esp. allowing spending programs to grow unchecked), but went he announces a decision he IS a man of his word and doesn't blow with the poll winds to help his numbers ... like some.\n\nI love the fact that on the internet it is possible to research a lot of these claims -- to go back and read ACTUAL speeches, laws, reports, etc.  and find out what was REALLY said,  not what the Dems and those in the media pushing their views claim was said.  (Before that I often had questions -- now I can read these things for myself.)
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Oh little minds . The president lied with all his information coming from Clinton era appointed intelligence agency's. There is no way on earth that Bush had the opportunity or time to place real intelligent men at these jobs. So he had to believe these people were telling him the truth. He may be guilty of passing on a lie told to him but not making up the story himself. if you will remember most of the rest of the free world held the same views.\nRemember the intelligence folks had training in truth fullness from their commander in chief Who did not have sex with that Woman.
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He believes it -  but that don't say much, does it.  Bush is a puppet he can jiggle any task the puppeteer jerks him to.  Carl Rove and Cheney are the puppet masters, but they cannot be presidents themselves.
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cause he was lying to us.\na2a
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Lies like "Bush lied about WMD" which has been told for years now?
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It is a way of accepting that Bush is the Freedom taker-in-chief. You know..? the best way to avoid the truth is to pretend it never existed.
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George Bush is a politician if his lips are moving he is telling a lie,taxes are high because the Democrats are over taxing us
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Bush has been lying all his life.  Both are/ were evil.
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no, but i'll go look that up now.\nthanks\n\n-Nice! \nWhy is it that when anyone points out when someone in this administration lies it's called disrespectful?  Don't you think it was disrespectful to troops to lie  and continue to lie about  why we went to war?!