Richard Cohen in his
Op-Ed in The Washington Post column today actually tries and spin that democrat
members of congress have not called the President a liar.
Along with such creations as American POWs still being held in Vietnam and the
Bill Clinton drug-smuggling operation at a remote Arkansas air strip, the unhinged
right wing has now invented the myth that Democratic members of Congress have called
President Bush “a liar” about Iraq. An extensive computer search by myself and a Post
researcher can come up with no such accusation. That’s prudent. After all, it’s not
clear if Bush lied about Iraq or was merely the “useful idiot” of those who did.
Well this could be true, and I am not saying it is. Considering that, there are probably
a million others ways to call a person a liar without actually calling him a one.
Though I think, it is a rule that politicians do not explicitly call each other liars.
In that, lying and politician are two words that go really well together. Then you
could get technical and say that everybody else but members of congress has called
the President a liar and of course, the most extreme of the party never hesitated
to use the phrase “Bush Lied, People Died.”
Mr. Cohen, nice try on splitting hairs, but I am not buying it. The democrats have
staked out their claim on the wrong side of this war and they will be unable to share
in the victory that is and will be Iraq. Of course as politicians, they will certainly
try.
UPDATE: Made corrections to some grammatical errors found by a reader. Thanks! I certainly
posted this entry a little to fast this morning.