Monday, September 11, 2006
More Lies
In his never-ending quest to label war critics as the best ally the terrorists have, Darth Cheney yesterday once again asserted that “suggestions, for example, that we should withdraw U.S. forces from Iraq…validates the strategy of the terrorists.”
In other words, we should pursue the same strategy as Israel, occupying foreign lands regardless of the will of the people and continued terror attacks, because that has worked so well in the past to decrease the number of terror attacks against Israel. Cheney also stumbled through his usual coterie of lies about Saddam Hussein, WMDs, and terrorist ties.
ON the Sunday round tables Condi Rice also continued to lie about Iraq and terror links to al Qaeda, despite the recent release of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s latest report.
Recently the president urged a renovation of the FISA bill, asserting that it is a relic from 1978 that can’t take into account new technologies: “When FISA was passed in 1978, there was no widely accessible Internet, and almost all calls were made on fixed landlines. Since then, the nature of communications has changed, quite dramatically. The terrorists who want to harm America can now buy disposable cell phones, and open anonymous e-mail addresses. Our laws need to change to take these changes into account.” Of course, when Congress renovated FISA in 2001 at his request he praised it: “The existing law was written in the era of rotary telephones. This new law that I sign today will allow surveillance of all communications used by terrorists, including e-mails, the Internet, and cell phones.”
Hat tip to Glenn Greenwald for this extraordinary citation of rediculous dishonesty by the president.
In a little article about a speech former President Bill Clinton gave lies a small gem: “Outside the Pageant, about a dozen protesters underscored that line of Republican attack. One protester sported a giant telephone costume, while others waved phones, to mock the Democratic opposition to some of the Bush administration's anti-terrorism measures.”
It reminds me of Chile in the first few years of the 1970s, when right-wing protestors pelted soldiers at military parades with chicken parts, the symbolism being that the military was too “chicken” to stage a coup that the right wing wanted. They got what they wanted: Augusto Pinochet staged a coup and took power in 1973. Tens of thousands of his victims, of course, didn’t get what they wanted.
Some people in this country want a police state, it is clear. I hope they don’t get what they want.
# posted by BitterHarvest @ 12:04 PM 
