Biggest Presidential Lies

Our presidents tend to prevaricate. Here are the biggest whoppers of our last four:

- Bill Clinton: I never had sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky ... not a single time.

- George W. Bush: Saddam Hussein was involved with the  9/11 attackers.

- Barack Obama: If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. If you like your insurance, you can keep your insurance.

- Donald Trump: I never shtupped Stormy Daniels. (Just one of a claimed 16,000+ lies. What he doesn’t achieve in the seriousness of his lies, he supposedly makes up for in their numbers.)

Fractured Definition

Bushwhacked — Saddam Hussein’s ultimate fate.

A New Chant

Now we find that George Bush and Colin Powell were right. The New York Times reveals today (apparently without a hint of embarrassment) that at least five thousand chemical warheads were discovered in Iraq during the years after the United States invasion … see: NY Times Story. This combined with the obvious relocation on truck convoys of many more of Saddam Hussein’s WMDs from Iraq into Syria in the months before our coalition’s invasion … see: PJ Media Story … and the discovery in Iraq of 550 metric tons of yellow-cake uranium in 2008 and its subsequent shipment to Canada … see: WMDs  … all suggest that the rationale for Bush's Iraqi war did indeed have some real underpinnings.

So, how about a new chant?  BUSH NEVER LIED ... SADDAM DIED!!

Hot Potato

I have previously referenced a posting in the Diplomad which was a first-hand account of how Saddam Hussein’s chemical weapons were transported into Syria during the many months run-up to Bush 43’s invasion of Iraq … see: The Diplomad Blog.  Now it seems that Bashar al-Assad of Syria is returning the favor and shipping his WMDs and WMD-making capabilities back to Iraq … see: Jerusalem Post Article.

I think this is called tossing around the hot potato.

I would love to believe that the current Putin/Obama alliance has forever solved the chemical weapons use issue in Syria.  But I didn’t just fall off of the potato … er, turnip truck.

WMDs

Yesterday was the tenth anniversary of George W. Bush’s inspired invasion of Iraq in order to secure its weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).  Even though the U.S. was successful in this military operation, the popular narrative is that there were no WMDs in Iraq … and thus “Bush lied, people died.” 

Now, the civil war in Syria is again raising the specter of WMDs which most concede that President Assad of Syria has at his disposal … see: The Atlantic Wire Story.  Many analysts believe that, in the months that it took George Bush to muster the U.N. support and the coalition forces to invade Iraq, Saddam Hussein merely transported these weapons into Syria where they now still reside.  If Bashar Assad has WMDs, surely Saddam Hussein did also.

Another incident in this on-going saga of  Iraqi WMDs was when ex-diplomat, Joe Wilson, said that his trip to Niger in 2002 produced no evidence that Iraq was trying to purchase yellowcake uranium from that country.  This was the trigger to the infamous Valarie Plame CIA-operative outing and huge investigation in a New York Times’attempt to defame many in the Bush administration.  Isn’t it funny that in 2008 the United State secretly transported 550 metric tons of yellowcake uranium out of Iraq and into Canada … see: NBC News Story

So, even though the popular narrative is that there were no WMDs in Iraq ten years ago, I think the evidence is not so conclusive.  However, going against the popular narrative is not the brightest thing to do if one wants to establish one's street creds.  But then truth has, for me, an insatiable appeal.  The popular narrative be damned.

Voter Intimidation

Last Tuesday in 59 voter districts in the City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia, Mitt Romney got no brotherly love. He got not one single vote out of almost 20,000 cast … see: Philadelphia Inquirer Story  How can this be? Even Saddam Hussein and Hugo Chavez did not receive every single vote in their heavy-handed elections. Perhaps, just perhaps, the presence of the New Black Panther Party members at these polling places had something to do with this voting anomaly? And these intimidating thugs were there as official “poll watchers” of all things.

Our Attorney General, Eric Holder’s looking the other way when such voter intimidation takes place is just one more step in our steady, relentless march to our own perdition.  I hope against hope that this lame excuse for an Attorney General leaves his post in January ... and climbs back into the woodwork.

Afterward: And in 9 Precincts in Cuyahoga County, Ohio (Cleveland) ... Romney got zero votes. See also Weasel Zippers.  In King County, Texas, Obama got 5 votes.