[Vision2020] Bush the truth teller: note to Dick

[Sunil Ramalingam]

Dick,

You frequently make comments about liberals living in a dream world, and you 
claim here that there is no proof of Bush lying.

Here's one simple example.  Bush has frequently claimed Hussein refused to 
allow inspectors into Iraq prior to his launching the war.  I just googled 
the words 'bush inspectors kept out' and came up with this article:

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/041306.html

You won't like it or its tone, I'm guessing.  Let's put that aside.  Here's 
a snippet:

'On July 14, 2003, Bush claimed that Saddam Hussein had barred United 
Nations weapons inspectors from Iraq when, in fact, they were admitted in 
November 2002 and given free rein to search suspected Iraqi weapons sites. 
It was Bush who forced the U.N. inspectors to leave in March 2003 so the 
invasion could proceed.

But faced with growing questions about his justifications for war in summer 
2003, Bush revised this history, apparently trusting in the weak memories of 
the American people and the timidity of the U.S. press. At the end of an 
Oval Office meeting with U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, Bush told 
reporters:

“We gave him (Saddam Hussein) a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he 
wouldn’t let them in. And, therefore, after a reasonable request, we decided 
to remove him from power.”

In the following months and years, Bush repeated this claim in slightly 
varied forms as part of his litany for defending the invasion on the grounds 
that it was Hussein who “chose war,” not Bush.

Meeting no protest from the Washington press corps, Bush continued repeating 
his lie about Hussein showing “defiance” on the inspections. Bush uttered 
the lie as recently as March 21, 2006, when he answered a question from 
veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas.

“I was hoping to solve this (Iraq) problem diplomatically,” Bush said. “The 
world said, ‘Disarm, disclose or face serious consequences.’ … We worked to 
make sure that Saddam Hussein heard the message of the world. And when he 
chose to deny the inspectors, when he chose not to disclose, then I had the 
difficult decision to make to remove him. And we did. And the world is safer 
for it.”

I remember him making the comment in the presence of Annan, and looked for 
it to be immediately rebutted in what you call, for little reason, the 
liberal media.  I think they're lapdogs, and they did their usual job by 
ignoring it.  That may be why he kept repeating the comment.  I remember him 
saying it in his press conference in March.

Is he lying?  I think so. If he isn't, you tell me how he could be wrong 
about the fact that inspectors were IN Iraq prior to the war, and given 
access.  If he didn't know that, he's monumentally ill-informed and 
surrounded by an incompetent staff.

Note that he doesn't claim they weren't given access to sites; he says they 
weren't allowed in.

Lies, Dick, lies.  Where do you get off saying others have their heads stuck 
up their politics, when you might be wearing your colon around your waist?

Sunil


>From: "rvrcowboy" <rvrcowboy at clearwire.net>
>To: "Vision2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Bush the truth teller: note to Dick
>Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 22:12:24 -0700
>
>You are great at repeating all the same old rhetoric and canned BS of the 
>liberal media.  Problem is, you have no proof.
>
>Dick

>