Democratic Underground - Cohen (WP): Not Getting the Truth

Wonderfully unambiguous slam at the on-going Bush lie-a-thon:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32659-2003Oct15.html

Not Getting the Truth

By Richard Cohen
Thursday, October 16, 2003; Page A25

(snip)

More to the point is the administration's Westmorelandish insistence on asserting the insupportable -- that Saddam Hussein was a grave threat to the United States because he was linked to terrorism and armed to the teeth with those awful weapons. There is no truth to that -- none. And yet Bush continues to insist on it. Once, it was possible merely to argue the matter, as some of the Europeans did. Now, though, questions about facts have become questions of judgment -- and candor. How can we believe what Bush says about the reconstruction of Iraq when we no longer believe the rest of what he says?

I am ensconced here at the American Academy in Berlin. I came to see my country from abroad, to defend it and what it did in Iraq (to the extent that I can), but the task has become increasingly difficult. No one specifically mentions Vietnam -- that's my own point of reference -- but they wonder about an administration that has been ambushed by the facts in Iraq and insists it has been vindicated.

It's one thing to be an Ugly American. It's another to be a dumb one.
(emphasis mine)

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