Texas Size Lies and Ideologues

[kentuck]

The lies seem to be so numerous and so large that the media cannot grasp the size and extent of the deception. No one would be so daring, they assume. Or are they willing accomplices?
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(from our friends at Buzzflash.com)

http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/05/05/con05192.html

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In their zeal for the ever-greater fib, they are taking the "Big Lie" concept to a whole other level. Not simply happy with telling the same lie so often that those listening eventually accept it as fact; they appear to have signed on to the vile theory that if you lie all the time, the lies will metastasize, multiply, and spread, like a cancer eating at the truth, engulfing and consuming all reason until the lies become a new reality out of sheer force of gravity. In Bushworld, lies are the new truth.

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Taking a country to war is one of the most solemn responsibilities we bestow on our President, on our Commander-in-Chief. It would be hard to imagine a greater act of deceit than that which takes a country to war on a lie. Sounds treasonous. No doubt criminal. Which of course makes it very difficult to understand why the President is still free to walk the halls of our White House and act the part of sanctimonious purveyor of democracy, freedom and moral clarity.

If you haven’t heard, and you may not have because the mainstream media outlets in our country have largely ignored the story, The London Times obtained a classified memo confirming that the U.S. and Great Britain had made a secret agreement in the summer of 2002 to attack Iraq. Also discussed was the need to create conditions to justify war and to “fix” the intelligence and the facts around the policy. Yes, the fix was in well before the President sought Congressional authority to go to war “as a last resort”.

The leaked document, now known as the ‘Downing Street Memo’, created little stir among major news organizations in the U.S. when its contents came to light in early May. In their defense, this was right around the time the “runaway bride” had captured our collective imagination. It would be foolish to think that we would preempt a story as newsworthy as that to report on a clandestine agreement between two allied Western powers to invade an oil-rich country in the Middle East.