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November 19, 2005
The Big Lie Technique
At a time when approximately 57 percent of Americans polled believe that President Bush deceived them on the reasons for the war in Iraq, it does seem a bit redundant to deconstruct the President's recent speeches on that subject. Yet, to fail to do so would be to passively accept the Big Lie technique--which is how we as a nation got into this horrible mess in the first place.
Read Robert Scheer's 11/16 column in the web edition of The Nation. You probably know all about it. Read it anyway.
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Thanks, Frank. This is the first time I have seen all this laid out end-to-end in any logical and objective way. Powerful stuff, this...
Posted by: Winston | Nov 20, 2005 7:59:44 AM
Myself, I find the "Bush lied to us" whine, infuriatingly childish. The fact that all of bush/blair claims before the war were based on nothing, was well known BEFORE the war. That so many, feeling that blood simmer, that quiet joy of rightous anger turning into rape, pillage and destroy (an inate human group bonding ritual), chose to ignore the truth that was not hidden, is the real issue.
All of this horror, is not Bush/Cheney/Christian's fault, it is all of ours.
Posted by: Peter (the other) | Nov 20, 2005 12:13:49 PM
