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LYING IS SCARY, NEXT STOP, (democrats who voted FOR WAR !)
Date: 3/14/2004 11:47:54 AM Eastern Standard Time
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Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2004 09:24:14 -0600
Subject: [GranniesAgainstGeorge] LYING IS SCARY
LYING IS SCARY
by Luis Zamora Florida USA March 14, 2004
Please write comments and thanks to: LUIS571@MSN.COM
Since Senator Kerry brought
up the subject of lying, perhaps we should investigate just how
much harm can be imposed on a nation by just putting lies out
on the air waves and in print. Lies from a nation's leadership
can transform the values of the country; it can send armies of
hundred of thousands to distant lands. It can deplete the nation's
wealth.
Unlike false statements from
the insignicant, leaders' lies penetrate into the living rooms
of every household. These premeditated fabrications spread alarm
for the country's causes and admonish us to be fearful of others
who may dress, act, and speak differently than the "we"
-- who may attend a different religious sanctuary than "we."
Fearmongering is a tool of politicians not confident; warmongering
is used for those lacking self-esteem.
Lies result in the hiring
of more police (for our protection, of course) the creation of
a huge new bureaucratic agency, Homeland Security, and the expenditure
of billions, if not trillions, from taxpayers' pockets. Thus,
citizens have traded freedom for security. The more we emphasize
security the safer we feel, right? That is, until we find ourselves
trapped inside a steel cage and soon learn the government alone
has the cage's key.
For our safety and security
we trade off freedom of speech, due process, and privacy. We
turn our heads the other way when the government apprehends citizens
off the street who may have peacefully dissented policy. We permit
our government to label them enemy combatants and be "detained"
in jail forever -- without legal counsel and even contact with
immediate family members. Somehow, we've overlooked these violations,
haven't we? All in the name of "security"? Where has
the America we love gone?
We allow our leaders to unilaterally
change the rules of warfare to suit those in power to fulfill
their pre-planned agenda from years prior to 9/11. We let our
government establish concentration camps like Guantanamo where
juveniles (some as young as 13) are imprisoned for over two years.
Sure, the guilty are caged with the innocent, but shouldn't this
ring some alarm bells? Where is due process? The world wants
the guilty prosecuted and the innocent set free, but that's not
the way Bush operates.
And what of the thousands
of Iraqis the U.S. have jailed or detained in concentration camps
that Saddam brutally used? Have alarms gone off that Saddam's
torture chambers are now being used by Americans, supposedly
there to "liberate"? The silence is deafening on the
subject of Iraqi jails and what is taking place outside of public
view.
So, when Senator John Kerry
said off-the-cuff (not realizing the mic. was on), "This
administration is the most corrupt and the most lying. It's scary,"
there is much truth to what he said. No apology necessary!
All Americans, please remember
this before you vote in November 2004. We heard it from the horses'
mouths. Here are the "horses'" statements:
Colin Powell at the U.N.:
"We know that Saddam has WMDs ----- We know."
Dick Cheney: "Saddam
has WMDs-------- . We know."
George W. Bush: "Saddam
has WMD --- We know. We have no doubt."
Donald Rumsfeld: "We
know."
Condoleezza Rice: "We
know."
And with those words and thousands
more ("We know") we were misled lied to deceived and
without question and without thoughtful scrutiny from the media,
off we went to fight an illegal war, a war that was pre-planned
in 1997, a war based on the wrong reasons, and a war fought in
the wrong country.
This administration has gotten
us so deep in the hole with lies, even if the liars repented,
turned from their wicked ways, and admitted the lies -- confessing
openly to we Americans -- they would still lose the upcoming
election. They have passed the point of no return. So, the only
logical (but not ethical) option they have is to keep on lying.
It's so sad that the top world
leaders are caught up in this mess. Americans should look where
we have been the last three years and see that it's a true indicator
of where we could be heading in the future. And vote accordingly.
Luis Zamora (Florida)
Luis Zamora is a combat veteran
of Korea and Vietnam, now retired in Florida. He writes occasionally
for American Voice ( AmeriVoice ) and other Internet posting
sites.
How many lies does it take
to equal the truth?
Simply stated, there is no
doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.
Dick Cheney
Speech to VFW National Convention
August 26, 2002
Right now, Iraq is expanding
and improving facilities that were used for the production of
biological weapons.
George W. Bush
Speech to UN General Assembly
September 12, 2002
If he declares he has none,
then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading
the world.
Ari Fleischer
Press Briefing
December 2, 2002
We know for a fact that there
are weapons there.
Ari Fleischer
Press Briefing
January 9, 2003
Our intelligence officials
estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as
much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent.
George W. Bush
State of the Union Address
January 28, 2003
We know that Saddam Hussein
is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined
to make more.
Colin Powell
Remarks to UN Security Council
February 5, 2003
We have sources that tell
us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders
to use chemical weapons -- the very weapons the dictator tells
us he does not have.
George W. Bush
Radio Address
February 8, 2003
So has the strategic decision
been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by
the leadership in Baghdad? . . . I think our judgment has to
be clearly not.
Colin Powell
Remarks to UN Security Council
March 7, 2003
Intelligence gathered by this
and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues
to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised.
George W. Bush
Address to the Nation
March 17, 2003
Well, there is no question
that we have evidence and information that Iraq has weapons of
mass destruction, biological and chemical particularly. . . all
this will be made clear in the course of the operation, for whatever
duration it takes.
Ari Fleisher
Press Briefing
March 21, 2003
There is no doubt that the
regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction.
And . . . as this operation continues, those weapons will be
identified, found, along with the people who have produced them
and who guard them.
Gen. Tommy Franks
Press Conference
March 22, 2003
I have no doubt we're going
to find big stores of weapons of mass destruction.
Defense Policy Board member
Kenneth Adelman
Washington Post, p. A27
March 23, 2003
One of our top objectives
is to find and destroy the WMD. There are a number of sites.
Pentagon Spokeswoman Victoria
Clark
Press Briefing
March 22, 2003
We know where they are. They're
in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and
north somewhat.
Donald Rumsfeld
ABC Interview
March 30, 2003
Obviously the administration
intends to publicize all the weapons of mass destruction U.S.
forces find -- and there will be plenty.
Neocon scholar Robert Kagan
Washington Post op-ed
April 9, 2003
I think you have always heard,
and you continue to hear from officials, a measure of high confidence
that, indeed, the weapons of mass destruction will be found.
Ari Fleischer
Press Briefing
April 10, 2003
We are learning more as we
interrogate or have discussions with Iraqi scientists and people
within the Iraqi structure, that perhaps he destroyed some, perhaps
he dispersed some. And so we will find them.
George W. Bush
NBC Interview
April 24, 2003
There are people who in large
measure have information that we need .. . so that we can track
down the weapons of mass destruction in that country.
Donald Rumsfeld
Press Briefing
April 25, 2003
We'll find them. It'll be
a matter of time to do so.
George W. Bush
Remarks to Reporters
May 3, 2003
I'm absolutely sure that there
are weapons of mass destruction there and the evidence will be
forthcoming. We're just getting it just now.
Colin Powell
Remarks to Reporters
May 4, 2003
We never believed that we'd
just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country.
Donald Rumsfeld
Fox News Interview
May 4, 2003
I'm not surprised if we begin
to uncover the weapons program of Saddam Hussein -- because he
had a weapons program.
George W. Bush
Remarks to Reporters
May 6, 2003
U.S. officials never expected
that "we were going to open garages and find" weapons
of mass destruction.
Condoleeza Rice
Reuters Interview
May 12, 2003
I just don't know whether
it was all destroyed years ago -- I mean, there's no question
that there were chemical weapons years ago -- whether they were
destroyed right before the war, (or) whether they're still hidden.
Maj. Gen. David Petraeus,
Commander 101st Airborne
Press Briefing
May 13, 2003
Before the war, there's no
doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction,
biological and chemical. I expected them to be found. I still
expect them to be found.
Gen. Michael Hagee, Commandant
of the Marine Corps
Interview with Reporters
May 21, 2003
Given time, given the number
of prisoners now that we're interrogating, I'm confident that
we're going to find weapons of mass destruction.
Gen. Richard Myers, Chairman
Joint Chiefs of Staff
NBC Today Show interview
May 26, 2003
They may have had time to
destroy them, and I don't know the answer.
Donald Rumsfeld
Remarks to Council on Foreign Relations
May 27, 2003
For bureaucratic reasons,
we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction (as justification
for invading Iraq) because it was the one reason everyone could
agree on.
Paul Wolfowitz
Vanity Fair interview
May 28, 2003