Lies And Deception

Dennis Hans provides a 15 point case arguing that the Bush administration has lied and obfuscated the truth it knows (and does not know) about Iraq in order to persuade and scare the American people into supporting a war to remove Sadaam Hussein from power. He backs up each point with examples of said deceptions and points out precisely how they are deceptive. This case is far more devastating in its indictment of Bush than was Powell's presentation against Iraq.

Lying Us Into War: Exposing Bush and His 'Techniques of Deceit' By Dennis Hans President George W. Bush and his foreign-policy team have systematically and knowingly deceived the American people in order to gain support for an unprovoked attack on Iraq. Before I catalog the Bush administration's 'Techniques of Deceit,' let me acknowledge that no U.N. resolution requires the president to be honest with the American people. The fine print of Resolution 1441 imposes no obligation to treat Americans as citizens to be informed rather than suckers to be conned. He may mislead, distort, suppress, exaggerate and lie to his heart's content without violating a single sentence in 1441. So if compliance with 1441 is all that matters to you, read no further. Turn on the TV and tune in Brokaw, Rather, Jennings, Blitzer or Lehrer, to name five of the journalistic imposters who control what you hear and see, who seem psychologically incapable of conceiving of Bush as a liar, and who wouldn't have the guts to call him one even if they reached that conclusion. But if you are an American citizen who believes in the bedrock democratic principle of 'the informed consent of the governed,' read on.