Friday, May 22, 2009

The Habitual Lying Of Dick Cheney

When is it a "lie" and not a "false statement"?

RawStory
points out all the lies, omissions, exaggerations and misstatements in Dick Cheney's recent speech. Try this one on for size:
Cheney asserted there was no connection between Bush administration torture and detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib.
Does anyone see a pattern here? Lying in office. Lying out of office. When has a private citizen attacked a President from such a flawed position? Cheney's fingerprints are all over everything that is wrong, his "ends justify the means" attitude has no end, just the repitition of his lies. So what if 20% of the people believe him [and watch Fox], the other 80% deserve better.

The disdain Cheney has for Obama, democracy, the American people, the truth, dissenting point of views, the Constitution and traditions of the Oval Office is so obvious. He has taken George Washington's "I can not tell a lie" and turned it into "I can only tell lies because Americans don't deserve the truth".

Source: Raw Story

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