Lies, deceipt, ...just another day in politics!

I got an email from a friend, who I am hoping sent it by mistake, but it discussed the "disgrace" that Obama spent money refurbishing a plane, and it seems "took the flag off" the tail of the plane. Perhaps this action was done in order to PAINT the plane, and is all out of context. The email goes on about patriotism and such...

I get so tired of people stating that McCant is more patriotic than Obama, simply due to his service and a war prisoner. This does not a President or patriot make. The people that wave the flag issue around like this are usually the same people that have no other thoughts regarding issues and must resort to meaningless issues such as this. I use the word meaningless to make a point. That being, patriotism is when people force themselves to think about what is NOT right about this country, and force themselves to continuously ask questions and question authority and make things better because of it. This is true freedom and patriotism! These flag concerned citizens need to open their eyes as to what is happening to our country, and how it has gone down the toilet and deeply into debt due to total mismanagement and excess spending that this current administration has done. Through lies, deceit, and manipulation we have watched our country go to shit!

If being President and running things in this manner, or wanting to have the same again, is Patriotic, something is seriously wrong with our moral structure in America today.

The following article comes from Salon.com. Whether than question its authenticity and find its proof, the faithful Repugnicants will simply disavow it as false and state that our government wouldn't do something like this...Like finding a fall guy and drug addict lying therapist to bring the Anthrax scare to be falsely linked to Al Qaida.

This Al guy seems to be guilty of everything in the world, based on this administration. Perhaps this is due to the fact that they want to find accountability, as long as it is not them.


War Room

By Alex Koppelman
Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2008 10:34 EDT

White House ordered forgery

I'll of course leave it to Glenn Greenwald, since this story falls right in his wheelhouse, to put this news into greater historical context, but I am honestly not sure whether to scream or yawn anymore when informed of new evidence of how mendaciously the Bush administration behaved in the run-up to the Iraq war.

The latest development is the alleged attempt by the administration to get the CIA to forge and backdate a memo concocting some bogus link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida, as reported in Ron Suskind's new book, "The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism." The White House, of course, denies the allegation. "The allegation that the White House directed anyone to forge a document from [former Iraqi intelligence director Tahir Jalil] Habbush to Saddam is just absurd," said White House spokesman Tony Fratto.

Yes, Mr. Fratto, how absurd -- because, like, there's just no historical precedent with this administration for lying, misleading or manipulating intelligence. We should all be ashamed of ourselves for such absurdities.

― Thomas Schaller