How to Tell if Bush is Lying

Oh, darn, you got it already ! Of course. When his lips are moving !

"We don't torture ", says GW. Well, of course we do. FBI memos out of Guantanamo prove that, unless you regard being shackled to a concrete floor in the fetal position for 24 hours "fun" or "therapy".

So, what's new ? The truthiverse (if Colbert can get away with "truthiness") is catching up with Our President more rapidly these days. Case in point ?

March 21, Bush calls on veteran and legendary reporter Helen Thomas at a news conference. He has mainly avoided doing this for five and a half years and here's why. Thomas asked him why did "he really want to go to war", since all his public justifications have fallen apart.

Bush reponded, "To assume I wanted war is just flat wrong," and "No President wants war."

March 27, a mere six days later, the truthiverse rears up and slaps Our President right on the end of his now ridiculously long nose. The New York Times carries a story about yet another British memo recording yet another meeting between Messrs Bush and Blair regarding the still threatened war on Iraq. This meeting was Jan. 31, 2003, long before the public "decision" to go to war was made.

And what do we learn ? We learn Bush's "diplomacy" was a sham and that he and Blair were determined on war no matter what the U.N. did. The start date for the war had already been "penciled in" for March 10.

So Bush lied to Helen Thomas (and all the rest of us).

But such is the torrent of lies, obfuscations, avoidances and denials that have flowed out of this Administration on every topic we can only, shrug, yawn and

Stay Naked
jd