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9/20/04 Liberal (Republican) Myths Persist Prove everything they say false, and liberals will ... continue to say false things. After all, when you don't have any facts to back up your positions, the only things you can rely on are falsehoods. But what is worse is that now some Republicans are being beguiled by the same myths. A short list of the things they say that are, according to all independent analysis, completely false: 1) George W. Bush lied when he said that Saddam Hussein had stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. FALSE: George W. Bush and every other world leader, including liberal icons like William Jefferson Blythe Clinton, believed he had such stockpiles. Bush wasn't lying any more than Bill Clinton or John Kerry was when they said the same thing. 2) Bush lied when he said Hussein had demonstrable connections to Al Qaeda. FALSE: Hussein did have demonstrable connections to Al Qaeda, as every official report from our bipartisan commissions and committees has shown. 3) Bush lied when he said Hussein had ties to the 9/11 attacks. FALSE: Bush never made such a claim, nor did any other member of his administration. It remains possible that Hussein did have such ties, but there is not sufficient evidence to sustain the claim (although if we used the same logic liberals do when confronted with a lack of evidence to support a claim they want to believe, we could just say there was). 4) Bush was dead set on invading Iraq immediately after the 9/11 attacks. FALSE: Bob Woodward's recent book points out clearly that he challenged advisors who suggested an attack on Iraq immediately after 9/11, requiring that they prove a connection before he would view such an attack as justified. It was the later actions of Hussein after inspections resumed that convinced Bush an attack was necessary to remove a growing threat. 5) Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld manipulated military commanders into an unrealistic plan for the Iraq war. FALSE: The civilian commanders got conflicting advice from the military leadership, but the man in command of the theater (CENTCOM), Gen. Tommy Franks, created the best plan he could envision, and still is not convinced there was a plan that would have turned out better. 6) Bush and his administration manipulated civilian analysts in the CIA to "sex up" intelligence about Iraq prior to the war. FALSE: Commissions and committees have investigated exhaustively and turned up no evidence of any such pressure. 7) Bush miscalculated the aftermath of the invasion of Iraq. FALSE: By his own admission, Tommy Franks miscalculated. He expected that other nations would come around and offer a total of around 150,000 troops to help with peacekeeping. He overestimated the courage and commitment of other nations in the world to peace and stability. 8) Bush did not get the support of a multilateral coalition for the war in Iraq, but forced us to "go it alone." FALSE: We have many allies in Iraq. The alliance is therefore multilateral and a coalition. With these and other falsehoods, lies, and distortions, the Democrats and their willing allies in the media are trying to divert attention from the dismal record of John Kerry and Democrats in general when it comes to waging war and protecting our national security, and from the fact that Bush has made us safer by aggressively pursuing our enemies overseas and diverting the energy of the mass murderers into defending what they perceive as their ground in Iraq rather than destroying our hold over here. They also don't want us thinking about the improving economy or the fact that John Kerry's military philosophy can be summed up by a cliché often used of changeable weather: "If you don't like my position on the war in Iraq, wait five minutes." I wonder if the society will ever be disabused of so many false notions foisted on it by a deceitful party and a largely biased media culture. I certainly hope it will, and soon. Modified: 09/20/2004 |
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