Liberal Lies, America Dies

Obama, Pelosi, Reid and the others continue to put forth lies, hoping that if they keep saying them, eventually we will just accept them as fact.

This is a tactic used by the left-biased media as well.  For example, according to the media, who was it that duped us into entering a false war with Iraq?  President Bush, of course!

Really?  This isn’t ancient history.  These events occurred just a few years ago, during a technological era that includes 24-hour cable news channels and the ubiquitous Web.  And yet, the truth is buried in an onslaught of repetitive accusations that Bush and  Cheney mislead us into a war with Iraq for:

• Revenge against making assassination attempt on George H. W. Bush
• Oil
• Lucrative contracts for Halliburton, a company Cheney was CEO and Chairman of until 2000

Hmmmm.  Let’s see if we can roll-back in time, back to the late 1990s and see what we find.  Year after year, during President Clinton’s second term, the U.N. passed security resolutions against Iraq for failing to cooperate with investigators from IAEA.

All the while, the U.N.’s “Oil for Food” program continued.  Remember that one?  The one that was found to be full of corruption?  And the evidence for this corruption came to light after the U.S. invaded Iraq.  But I digress…

So, U.N. resolution after U.N. resolution was passed by Russia, Germany, France, and the U.S. under President Clinton.  Finally, in 2002, the U.N. passed security resolution 1441that cited breaches related not only to Weapons of Mass Destruction (right on page one of the resolution), but to other violations as well.  The resolution passed unanimously, which included Arab states as well. Now remember, this is 2002, a year after 9/11.  President Clinton, Germany, Russia, France, et. al. had been all working off the same intel as President Bush.  And when Saddam Hussein chose to ignore 1441, Bush made the decision to go to war, citing the evidence for WMD in Iraq.  And with the approval of the Congress (Senate: 77-23 and House: 296-133), he did just that.

I hope that shines a light on how things get spun and twisted into lies to demonize those that oppose the liberal agenda.

So what are the current lies?

During President Obama’s recent SOTU address, had provided us with quite a few.  Besides sounding petulant, and once again blaming everything that’s going wrong on President Bush, he managed to throw out a few choice lies that cannot, and should not, be ignored.  My personal favorite:

“Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests – including foreign corporations – to spend without limit in our elections. Well I don’t think American elections should be bankrolled by America’s most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities. They should be decided by the American people, and that’s why I’m urging Democrats and Republicans to pass a bill that helps to right this wrong.”

–President Obama, January 27^th, 2010 SOTU

Ben Shapiro points out in his article that even the New York Times knew, as did Justice Alito, that Obama was lying.  As Ben put it, “When The New York Times is calling out a socialist president for lying, you know he’s in trouble.”

So what does the the mainstream media focus on?  The truth?  The Supreme Court decision?  The first amendment?  No, it distracts the public by repetitively attacking Justice Alito for mouthing the words, “That’s not true,” which leads people to believe that Obama was correct and the Supreme Court was wrong. Not only was Obama wrong, he had no right to attack the justices as they sat there mute in a State of the Union address.  There is a separation of powers for specific reasons, one of which is for checks and balances.  The SOTU was not the forum for this kind of behavior.

The Supreme Court made a careful decision, excluding foreign corporations or corporations owned by foreign corporations.  They were right on target with their interpretation of the first amendment.  The reality is, however, that Obama just plain didn’t like it.  And like a child, he pouted and bullied, using the SOTU to emasculate the justices sitting powerless before him.  He revealed more than lies in his SOTU speech.

Personally, I found his behavior appalling.

–This is part one of a series of articles.  Next up: How Obama lied about spending less.