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— Perri Nelson, November 6, 2008
Bush Lied - People Died (No, He Didn't).
Published Sat, Nov 4 2006 8:18 PM
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Did Liberals Lie About Weapons of Mass Destruction?
As the war in Iraq becomes increasingly unpopular with Americans, Democrats in collusion with the liberal mainstream media, continue to politicize the war by blatantly distorting the facts.
You know, little facts like before the 2000 election most of them were raising the alarm about Saddam and his WMD programs? After we went into Iraq, the mantra of the left became "Bush Lied - People Died". A popular bumper sticker here on the left coast reminds us that when Clinton lied, nobody died (although an aspirin factory might have blown up).
The dictionary (dictionary .com) defines the word Lie thus:
lie1 /laɪ/ [lahy] noun, verb, lied, ly‧ing.
–noun
1.
a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood.
Somehow I think that characterizes the statements made by the left about the motivations for the war a lot more than it does those of our President. I think the key point is the bit about "deliberate intent to deceive". Either the liberal leadership was lying before 2000, or they've been lying ever since we went to war in Iraq. Basil's got quotes.
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