administration's...confusion about what is true and what isn't

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Military.com
http://www.military.com/opinion/0,15202,112087,00.html

A Familiar Road to Disaster
Joe Galloway | August 31, 2006

Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld took to the road this week trying to sell the message that Iraq is part of the war on terrorism and that anyone who thinks differently is morally or intellectually challenged.

With the president himself batting clean-up on Thursday, the dynamic duo and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made the rounds of the conventions of the biggest national veterans' organizations -- the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Reno, Nev., and the American Legion in Salt Lake City -- peddling the Bush administration's beleaguered line of bull to guaranteed friendly audiences.

Rumsfeld's message to the American Legion in Salt Lake City was that critics of the Bush administration's policies on Iraq and terrorism were guilty of "moral or intellectual confusion about what is right or wrong."

Cheney's soundbites out of the Reno gathering of the VFW included assertions that the federal court ruling that warrantless wiretapping was unconstitutional was "dead wrong" and will be reversed on appeal. That "sound policies by the president" have prevented any more terrorist attacks on the United States since 9/11 and that the terrorists, whom he declared "in the last throes" last year, are now "weakened and fractured, yet still lethal."

These statements reflect the administration's persistent moral or intellectual confusion about what is true and what isn't.

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In fact, we are bogged down in a no-win and no-way-out war in part because our military commanders have been browbeaten into fighting it on the cheap, with perhaps half the number of troops they needed to get a grip on a fractious people before the place dissolved into chaos, anarchy and sectarian bloodshed and revenge-taking. When we crack down in one place -- now it's Baghdad -- trouble crops up someplace else in a frustrating game of whack-a-mole.

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1. Mark Twain summed it up very nicely

"Always tell the truth and you will never have to remember anything." But who ever accused the bush administration of seeking wise advice?

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2. Also...

They don't tell the truth and remember nothing.