Bush's Lies And Simple Truths

Robert Jensen observes that, "A few weeks ago Jim McDermott, a courageous congressman from Washington state, traveled to Baghdad in pursuit of peace and was sharply criticized, particularly for his comment that George Bush 'might mislead' the American public to build support for an attack on Iraq. He got only one thing wrong -- the 'might.'

"George Bush HAS misled the American public. He IS misleading the American public, and we can assume he WILL continue to mislead the public. In fact, the entire Bush administration has been misleading the public, sometimes by misdirection, sometimes by fudging the facts, and sometimes by straightforward, outright lies..."