Lies, Damned Lies, & Political Lies

Did you know that three weeks after the invasion of Iraq began Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV (yes, that Joe Wilson) said,

I remain of the view that we will find biological and chemical weapons and we may well find something that indicates that Saddam’s regime maintained an interest in nuclear weapons.

So: "Wilson lied, and . . . . " what?

In the December issue of Commentary, Norman Podhoretz puts his finger on one of the reasons for our current disgust with national politics: The Democrats lie, those lies are refuted, and the same lies are repeated, and refuted, and repeated . . . . It becomes a question of who has the most stamina to pursue pointless arguments, a contest Democrats will always win. (See, for example, Michael Moore, Daily Kos, and Howard Dean: Irrational, energetic, never dismayed when their nonsense is shown to be, well, nonsense.)

Podhoretz writes:

Among the many distortions, misrepresentations, and outright falsifications that have emerged from the debate over Iraq, one in particular stands out above all others. This is the charge that George W. Bush misled us into an immoral and/or unnecessary war in Iraq by telling a series of lies that have now been definitively exposed.

What makes this charge so special is the amazing success it has enjoyed in getting itself established as a self-evident truth even though it has been refuted and discredited over and over again by evidence and argument alike. In this it resembles nothing so much as those animated cartoon characters who, after being flattened, blown up, or pushed over a cliff, always spring back to life with their bodies perfectly intact. Perhaps, like those cartoon characters, this allegation simply cannot be killed off, no matter what.

Podhoretz soldiers on, and sets to right the various components of the Democrat Big Lie. Read the article HERE, and we guarantee you'll learn something.