965 Lies

I knew they were lying a lot back in those heady days leading up to the invasion of Iraq, one needed only to browse a European web site or read a Knight-Ridder report to find the truth, but I had no idea of the scale of the collective mendacity emanating from the White House in their successful attempt to bamboozle congress and the American people.

Many good people swallowed it whole and even now refuse to accept that their elected officials - Bush/Cheney and their cabal of co-conspirators, Rumsfeld, Powell, Rice, Wolfowitz etc. etc. - could be capable of such blatant lying. Many continue to believe that WMD was found or moved to Syria or is yet to be discovered, they belive that Saddam was in direct talks with Osama Bin Laden and ready at a moments notice to deliver the ficticious WMD to Osama for use in his terror operations against the West - it's hard to deliver what you don't have - many still believe that Saddam had an established nuclear program and US cities would evaporate in a mushroom cloud - I still have no idea how he was going to deliver those ficticious nuclear warheads to US cities, maybe in a suitcase or by FedEx or some otherwise dastardly way, it certainly wasn't by one of his rockets, they were found to be not much more than glorified roman candles. Many still cling to the proof offered by mobile biological labs and viles of anthrax, chemically tipped munitions and confirmed meetings in Prague. It's all complete and utter hogwash.

Now, even the most ardent, ideologically saturated supporter of this administration is entitled to their opinion and even entitled to write misleading, factually incorrect, wholly unsupported screeds in whatever medium they chose for their equally dillusional bretheren but the evidence that we were lied to repeatedly by people we had put our ultimate trust in is incontravirtable.

That several other governments and elements within their intelligence agencies agreed with the ass hats in our White House is not a defence, it is merely further proof of a conspiracy against truth perpetrated by the lot of them.

That Saddam was a bad man, yes he was. Is the world a safer place without him? I see no evidence to support that either. It's just another lie...