More Evidence

You don't really need to look very hard to find evidence that the Bush Administration is lying about Iraq and that it has been lying from the beginning. It never was hard to find really. People just didn't want to look before.

For instance, take this statement from Peter Wehner, deputy assistant to the President and director of the White House's Office of Strategic Initiatives:

We are at the outset of what may well be a historic transition -- and such transitions can be jolting and uneven. The Bush administration's "solution" is not to create "instability." It is to assist in the rise of liberty and civic habits in the Middle East. That will take longer to achieve than the historical blink of an eye. And one thing we know for sure: we were never going to get there under a policy that looked away from, or even promoted, tyrannical regimes in the Arab world.

Responding to George Will's Realism, RealClearPolitics.com, August 16, 2006.

The point here is the acknowledgement that the administration's Iraqi/MidEast policy "will take longer to achieve than the historical blink of an eye."

As I suggested in my last post, it would be simplistic and stupid to think anything else. Yet that was the snow job that the Bushies played on the American people, and made people believe - that this war would be a brief skirmish.

Were they lying then? Are they lying now?

George Bush keeps telling us we have got to stay the course. He's now playing Lyndon Johnson's Domino Theory card. He seems on the verge of resorting to Nixon's "peace with honor" excuse.

But some of the Bushies obviously know that this war can go on for a long time. It's time the administration openly admitted that. And explain to us how America's staying can really make things better than if we left.

And in that explanation, the Domino Theory is not going to cut it.