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- VeryAngryJim, on 10/12/2007, -1/+18"Bush is a lame duck anyway. Nothing he says or does matters anymore."
if he manages to get 20k more troops thrown into the meat grinder, it will matter quite a bit to them and their families. - SpudgeBoy, on 10/12/2007, -5/+17What, Bush lied again? Now why would he do that? For plitical gains?
What a friggin' jerk.
When will he admit he lied to get us into Iraq? - elebrio, on 10/12/2007, -7/+15I didn't read anywhere Bush saying, "I lied". Where exactly did he 'admit' this?
ad·mit /ædˈmɪt/
–verb (used with object)
1. to allow to enter; grant or afford entrance to: to admit a student to college.
2. to give right or means of entrance to: This ticket admits two people.
3. to permit to exercise a certain function or privilege: admitted to the bar.
4. to permit; allow.
5. to allow or concede as valid: to admit the force of an argument.
6. to acknowledge; confess: He admitted his guilt. - kencyber, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I think the president's motto must be:
"Fake it until you make it!"
Forget about being the primary decision maker, I think we should name him the primary deceiver. - poornbroken, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7all i can say is... that's ALOT of inference from a small quote. we don't even know what the context of that snippet is.
that major change could be from a million different things. and as far as i know... there really hasn't been a "major change" in the strategy, or do you see it? except, maybe more troops.
i'm pretty sure i could take snippets from anyone's life and make them look bad. - hathewj, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8I agree. He is a bad, bad, bad president, but he did not say he lied. Let's leave the fact distortion to FOX news.
- otheruser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4That article would be here:
http://digg.com/political_opinion/REPORT_Iraq_Escalation_Could_Be_Twice_As_Large_As_Bush_Claimed - chase001, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I resent you calling FOX "news". It is 24 hours of lies and right wing political opinion. Better to call it Faux News.
- otheruser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Hah, how naive...
Do you honestly believe President Bush thought we were winning in Iraq?
Or
Was he falsely reassuring (aka LYING) Americans so he could stitch together an alternate plan (the one we're seeing now)?
I think the latter is more feasible, don't you? - queenstarsha, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2impeach the poor guy. he can't be enjoying this, and he's so unpopular, i'm starting to fear for his safety.
- JupiterLander, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5"if he manages to get 20k more troops thrown into the meat grinder, it will matter quite a bit to them and their families."
actually there is an article around digg somewhere that the real number is 48,000 - otheruser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Actually, both the President and the Vice President could be impeached, together.
- phlux, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1And yet we sit as if hands tied
even with the truth he lied
when will we all stand
reclaim our freedom and our land.
how much more to finally push
our spirits to remove heir bush. - otheruser, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The only way Congress can successfully stop Bush is if the public is behind them...
- MrDiggle, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4So far he's been caught lying about:
The strategy is working in Iraq.
Iraq has WMD's
Iraq and al-Qaeda are linked.
The levees will hold in New Orleans.
Had no idea who leaked the ID of Valarie Plame.
What else? - dustyshadow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2agreed, marked as inaccurate
- phairphair, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I consider myself to be fairly conservative or libertarian about most things, but what scares me the most are religious zealots. Forming national policy on the basis of a faith i.e. unverifiable beliefs, is not a good thing.
Digg is undoubtedly mostly populated by young immature liberals who haven't lived with any kind of real responsibility in the real world, but I would take their worldview over an Evangelistic Christian.
In the next election I won't be voting for the Dems, I'll be voting against the Republicans that have been corrupted by the Religious Right (Who, historically, have had nothing to do with Republican beliefs). - hambend, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Many in the Bush administration, including the entire of PNAC, are avid subscribers to Straussian politics. Central to the philosophy of Leo Strauss was the idea of the "Noble Lie", where the leaders of a nation must lie to the public for their own good, essentially because they are not strong-minded enough to understand the grand policies and goals of government.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Strauss
Needless to say, this is a total perversion of the democratic process, where government must be completely open to public scrutiny and the nation's constituents must at all times be as well-informed as possible in order to make the best choice of representatives. This kind of behavior must be met with absolute zero tolerance in any free country. As it stands, the complacency of the American people in the face of this kind of corruption sends a clear signal to politicians that they are free to operate on their own terms, with only the barest lip-service justifications to the masses. - Zer0kill, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Even if we did impeach the president who would take his place? The vice president, all that man would do is continue with Bush's plan there would be no change in course. You have to get rid of his whole administration to change anything. I'm just doing what every other American is doing, treating it like a bad storm and just waiting it out.
- elebrio, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sammy Sosa is now playing in the minor leagues for next to nothing.
- phairphair, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1News Flash:
All politicians lie constantly. Some are better at not getting caught than others.
All past presidents have lied publicly about their personal views of a war at any specific moment.
It's impossible to get to that level in politics without lying.
You're missing the point about Bush. He's not a liar, he's an idealogue. He really, truly believes what he's saying even when it's so obviously ridiculous or wrong. Typical of a religious fundamentalist. They see the world in black or white, right or wrong. Good or Evil.
That's even more dangerous. - soupir, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Faux" News. Impeachment. Oil. Religious fundamentalist.
On cue, there's the other, trite, over-abused ideology. I see zero difference between the two. Both ideologies are "dangerous" and believe they're right "when it's so obviously ridiculous or wrong." But in the Digg bubble, it's just so easy to feel like a hyper-elitist badge-wearing member of the intellegentsia. Oh how we laugh at the majority of Americans who voted otherwise, on either side. In reality, we just happen to have one ideology better represented in these comments. - PleaseJustDie, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0umm didn't he admit to this like 2 days after the election? Lame
- semengilligan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Didn't bush bankrupt an oil company and trade Sammy Sosa?
Would he be president if he wasn't his fathers sun? - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Digg down. Inaccurate.
- curbstomper8, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0well said
- scottcindy69, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0Marked as inaccurate
- KingLeo, on 10/12/2007, -7/+5Why is this news?
- madcast, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0otheruser2.. i find it interesting that this is all coming from Think Progress, which is an obviously biased source. I'd just like to see something from a more nuetral news source.
- Ifishbein, on 10/12/2007, -8/+5He can lie as much as he wants. He will never get impeached. Bush is a lame duck anyway. Nothing he says or does matters anymore.
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