What are your favorite *proven* political lies of all-time?

[lwcon]

I'll be lazy and start with the obvious:

Every Bush admin claim that "There are definitely WMD in Iraq," "We've found the WMD in Iraq," and "We never said there were definitely WMD in Iraq."

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[acmavm]

1. Rummy: "We know where they are. Blah blah blah...

[Reverend_Smitty]

2. Richard Nixon...

"I am not a crook" when in fact he was...how he managed to say that with a straight face is beyond me

[hobbit709]

7. I second that

[lwcon]

17. Another favorite: Nixon's 1968 "secret plan" to end the Vietnam war

Apparently, the secret plan was to keep feeding our young men into the military-industrial machine until he got a second (though, it turned out, incomplete) term.
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[Radical Activist]

22. It amazes me that anybody bought that.

How could people be so gullible?

[Ilsa]

3. Rumsferatu, when asked how long the troops would be in Iraq, said

he couldn't imagine them being there any longer than six months. It was on one of the talk shows, possibly a Sunday morning.

[Pierzin]

4. I can top that. Here's the video of Rummy saying where they are.

follow the links. It's hysterical!
http://www.cnn.com/POLITICS/

[valerief]

5. Duke Cunningham sobbing. n/t

[robbedvoter]

6. W: "I won" (twice). Dick: "I am not a crook"

W has a long list - "we never knew of: planes could be hijacked, levees could break, no WMDsky is blue..etc

[FormerDittoHead]

8. I'm thinking the bottle of Anthrax held up by Colin Powell...

and most of the UN speech with the satellite pictures of the UN Inspectors being fooled and the exploded view diagram of the mobile WMD "plant".

[lwcon]

14. That's a personal favorite

And what did all the papers say? "Compelling!"

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[skeeters2525]

9. God Told Me Too Invade Iraq

Don't know which God, I think it was an imposter from down below. And I don't mean Australia.

[tetedur]

10. 1. Saddam Hussein did not disarm.

2. Saddam Hussein chose to deny the UN inspectors.March 2006
It was his choice to make, and he did not let us (inspectors) in." —President George W. Bush Jan. 27, 2004

And we gave him a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn't let them in. —President George W. Bush July 14, 2003

3.Condoleezza Rice said, "I don't think anyone could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center."

4. "We do not torture." -Bush

5.“Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so.” -Bush 2004

6. "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees." President Bush (09/01/05)

[justgamma]

13. He wouldn't let the inspectors in.

And we gave him a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn't let them in. —President George W. Bush July 14, 2003

http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-03-17-inspectors-iraq_x.htm

"In the clearest sign yet that war with Iraq is imminent, the United States has advised U.N. weapons inspectors to begin pulling out of Baghdad, the U.N. nuclear agency chief said Monday."


LIAR!!!

[blondeatlast]

11. "It's a Left Wing/Media/Left Wing Media conspiracy to smear me."

Watergate/Iran-contra/pretty much the entire Buish Administation, ad nauseum.

To be continued...

[izzie]

12. Phyllis Shepley saying we would have to do this if we voted for

the women's amendment. Go to the bath room with men. And I knew women and men who thought that we would only have no-sex bath rooms, not that my home does not have them already. It just stayed in my mind it sounded so funny. I am not sure I spelled her name right.

[Jade Fox]

20. Yes, the Rovian scare tactic of its day....

Uni-sex bathrooms!! OH NO!! I remember thinking these people seem unaware they us uni-sex bathrooms at home all the time.

It's Phyllis Schafly, I believe.

[degreesofgray]

15. "I am not a crook"

9-11 taught us that...
we know where the WMD's are...north of Tikrit
I did not have sexual relations with that woman

[DemoTex]

16. Bu$h on "Political Capital" (11/04/2004)

Let me put it to you this way: I earned capital in the campaign, political capital, and now I intend to spend it. It is my style. That's what happened in the -- after the 2000 election, I earned some capital. I've earned capital in this election -- and I'm going to spend it for what I told the people I'd spend it on, which is -- you've heard the agenda: Social Security and tax reform, moving this economy forward, education, fighting and winning the war on terror.

[Nye Bevan]

18. "Al Gore claimed that he invented the internet" (nt)

[DUHandle]

19. I support the left, though I’m leaning, leaning to the right.

Hey now baby, get into my big black car.
Hey now baby, get into my big black car.
I want to just show you what my politics are.

I’m a political man and I practice what I preach.
I’m a political man and I practice what I preach.
So don’t deny me baby, not while you’re in my reach.

I support the left, though I’m leaning, leaning to the right.
I support the left, though I’m leaning to the right.
But I’m just not there when it’s coming to a fight.

Hey now baby, get into my big black car.
Hey now baby, get into my big black car.
I want to just show you what my politics are.

Politician, by Jack Bruce and Pete Brown

[foo_bar]

21. "Read my lips: no new taxes!"

[leftofthedial]

23. we have to cut taxes because the economy is so good--2000

we have to dut taxes because the economy is so bad--2001