Krugman calls Bush a liar: Weapons of Math Destruction

[gristy]

Weapons of Math Destruction

By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: April 14, 2006

Now it can be told: President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney based their re-election campaign on lies, damned lies and statistics.

The lies included Mr. Cheney's assertion, more than three months after intelligence analysts determined that the famous Iraqi trailers weren't bioweapons labs, that we were in possession of two "mobile biological facilities that can be used to produce anthrax or smallpox."
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Again, the point isn't merely that the Bush administration has squandered the budget surplus it inherited on tax cuts for the wealthy. It's the fact that the administration has spent its entire term in office lying about the nature of those tax cuts. And all the world now knows what I suspected from the start: an administration that lies about taxes will also lie about other, graver matters.

http://select.nytimes.com/2006/04/14/opinion/14krugman.html

[tom_paine]

1. I am stunned that the Masters at the New Whore Times allowed him

to say that.

After 5+ years of the most odious, blatant and persistent lies, NOW the New Whore Times is allowing their writers to call it what is is and always has been?

Better late than never, I suppose.

Although, in truth, I think it's too late already.

[otohara]

2. Timmy Russert Too - Just Sat There

like a bump on a log. Let's Cheney lie as much as he wants.

[npincus]

4. Bob Herbert's been calling him one (figuratively) for a long time

and Maureen Dowd has NOT been kind to Chimpy, either.

[Uncle Joe]

3. I believe Paul Krugman is about the only journalist

still left in America some days, I guess that's why the Times put their little fire wall up.

Kicked and recommended!

:kick:

[Hand]

5. Link to full article at topplebush.com...

Weapons of math destruction

[immoderate]

6. Thanks.

--IMM