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DesertRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-26-05 11:21 AM
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Is Bush lying about his lies?
Great new article by the influential Catholic writer, Father Andrew Greeley:

Not only did the Bush administration deceive the American people about the reasons for invading Iraq, it is now deceiving them about the deceptions. In a burst of political tantrums, the president and the vice president have shouted that it was "irresponsible" to assert that there had been deception and it was unfair to the troops fighting in Iraq.
Read on:
http://www.suntimes.com/output/greeley/cst-edt-greel25.html
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Marr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-26-05 11:36 AM
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1. Ooh- good commentary. I loved this:
Edited on Sat Nov-26-05 11:36 AM by Marr
"James Fallows, in a long and careful article in the Atlantic Monthly, says that it would probably take 10 years, just as anonymous hints from the Pentagon assert. The alternative is set a strict schedule for withdrawal, which Fallows admits would be a loss of honor.

Whose honor? That of the United States or those who fabricated the reasons for the war? What honor do Bush and Cheney have left?"
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DesertRat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-26-05 12:15 PM
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4. What honor do Bush and Cheney have left?
That's my favorite line in the article.
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Freedom_from_Chains Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-26-05 11:54 AM
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2. Of course he is, the guy is a pathological liar. n/t
Edited on Sat Nov-26-05 11:55 AM by Freedom_from_Chains
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Double T Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Nov-26-05 12:03 PM
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3. Agreed!!!! bush is a certifiable nut case, that can not be trusted
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