Pitbull Turns on his Master

After every two or three paragraphs of this article in the ultra-right-wing WorldNetDaily I had to scroll to the top to make sure I wasn't still reading a predictably anti-war blog. I read so many every day and the lies of the administration have been so... well... numerous, I kept thinking I had just lost track. But no:

Bush saw the warning, yet completely ignored it and barreled ahead with the war plans he'd approved a month earlier...

By telling Americans that Saddam could "on any given day" slip unconventional weapons to al-Qaida if America didn't disarm him, the president misrepresented the conclusions of his own secret intelligence report...

If that's not lying, I don't know what is...

Over the following months, in speech after speech, Bush went right on lying with impunity about the Iraq-al-Qaida threat...

Even after the war, Bush continued the lie. "We have removed an ally of al-Qaida,"...

It was the height of irresponsibility to have done so in the middle of a war on al-Qaida, the real and proven threat to America. Bush diverted those troops and other resources – including intelligence assets, Arabic translators and hundreds of billions of tax dollars – from the hunt for Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaida leaders along the Afghan-Pakistani border. And now they've regrouped and are as threatening as ever.

That's inexcusable, and Bush supporters with any intellectual honesty and concern for their own families' safety should be mad as hell about it – and that's coming from someone who voted for Bush.

The Apostropher has remarked to me before about Americans' love of building up heroes to super-human heights before ruthlessly clawing them to shreds. Is this poised to happen again? I dunno. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy, though.

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