Christopher Scheer has collected the most egregious of Bush's impeachable lies in an article for Alternet, "Ten Appalling Lies We Were Told About Iraq." Perhaps we could add an eleventh, which would be any of the number of times over the last two months that administration spokesmen have respun the war — you know, in that "revisionist historian" way that they have — as a war of liberation and humanitarian relief. If that were the case, then perhaps Bush et al would be taking a greater interest in the Congo and Liberia, where millions have died in civil wars. So far, Bush has dispatched 35 U.S. military personnel to the latter nation. As Arianna Huffington wrote in the L.A. Times today:
While trying to drum up outrage at Hussein, the president cataloged a list of his atrocities, including mutilation and rape, and proclaimed: "If this is not evil, then evil has no meaning." But the president's flyover of Africa's hearts of darkness, riven by mutilation and rape, shows that it's his rhetoric that has no meaning. Here is true evil, but next week will instead be dominated by photo ops with smiling children.
The suddenly fashionable humanitarian justification for the war in Iraq is nothing more than another White House deception designed to cloak the fact that the original justification — Iraq as an imminent threat — hasn't panned out. Which is just too darn bad for the long-suffering souls of Congo and Liberia.
Subtle, she ain't, but Huffington sure said what a lot of us have been thinking.
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