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Wednesday, June 25, 2003
      ( 9:56 AM )
 
Rest of the World Looks Quizzically at the U.S.'s Fake Ethics

Here are a few doses of what the world thinks of our dear BushCo and how everyone is tippy-toeing around the fact that the ravenous beasts who devoured the last president in impeachment hearings over lying about an affair are now silent as stone with a president who lied about the reasons to go to war where thousands are killed and a possible decade of occupation must now take place.

In Canada, Linda McQuaig asks "Why was false testimony about an affair not OK for Clinton but false evidence justifying war was OK for Bush?":

Now, of course, there are plenty of differences between the two
cases. Former president Clinton lied under oath about his
under-the-desk encounter with Monica Lewinsky. Bush’s apparent
lie -- that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction even
though his own intelligence agency could find no such evidence
and his own army can find no such weapons - was made repeatedly
to the American people, but not under oath.

So, does that explain it? Lying to the American people is OK, as
long as it’s not done under oath?

The UK's Financial Times isn't as lighthearted about it:

Mr Bush's impatience with those who want to know why his forces
have not found WMD is shortsighted. In a democracy, it matters
whether the people can believe what their leaders tell them. If the
facts on the ground do not match what leaders say, the consequences can be profound. The Vietnam war showed how difficult it is to close
the credibility gap once it has opened up.

BushCo doesn't seem to feel threatened by the truth, however. From the speeches and comments given by Bush and Rumsfeld at their various press conferences yesterday, it looks like they are steadfast in their determination to pretend we're all idiots and they are the only proper recipients of the Lord God's power over the peoples of the earth. It's the ultimate bully government. They'll just bully us all into doing and thinking what they want...so they presume. Hopefully the American citizenry is growing a few more brains than its had in the last year or so and will begin to question and go not so willingly to the slaughter. My biggest concern is what BushCo will use as the "Distraction" from all its failures, and my fear is that it will be another invasion or war of some kind...provoked by another attack on American interests that might have been avoided had we not launched our "pre-emptive policy" on the world.

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