Truth is, this gang keeps lying

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http://www.sptimes.com/2006/09/17/Columns/Truth_is__this_gang_k.shtml">Truth is, this gang keeps lying
By ROBYN E. BLUMNER, St. Petersburg Times
Published September 17, 2006

Listening to the Bush administration these days reminds me of those delusional daily briefings by Iraq's former minister of information, Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf. You remember the guy. He's the one who, at the start of the Iraq war, stood before the international press corps and described events in a way completely at odds with what was unfolding. For his epic truth-bending, he was dubbed Comical Ali.

Our absurdist funnymen are the president and the VP. For them, truth is considered something to run circles around, and they both have a knack for keeping a straight face while spouting doozies.

Though, for a moment last month, I thought President Bush was finally being forthright. He actually declared at a news conference that Iraq had "nothing" to do with the attacks of 9/11.

But the prevaricator-in-chief just couldn't let that simple truth be. During the same briefing he had to pitch that Saddam Hussein "had relations with Zarqawi," meaning a connection to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the Jordanian al-Qaida operative who was in Iraq before the U.S. invasion.

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