The Big Lie

TomPaine.com: A Pattern Of Deception

"...Bush's statement on Iraq shows his telltale MO. Moreover, duping the nation into war is only one case of the pattern of calculated deception that has gone on since the outset of his administration.

We need to go back to Feb. 27, 2001, when Bush introduced his first tax cut proposal in a televised speech to Congress and the nation, to see the early duplicity. As New York Times columnist Paul Krugman observed on March 28: "I can't think of any precedent in the history of American economic policy [when an administration was] quite this shameless about misrepresenting the actual content of its own economic plan."

I noted in a March 16 Seattle Times column that what stands out in the Bush speech is the use of the "Big Lie." Such a statement is a technically accurate claim that distorts rather than reveals the truth. Looking into Bush's MO in his tax legislation illuminates the pattern of deception as used in Iraq..."