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Originally Posted by raveneye
Well you gotta remember that for a claim to be a "lie" three requirements have to be met:
1. it has to be false
2. the liar has to know that the claim is false
3. the liar has to intend for his listener to believe him
While 1 and 3 are pretty easy to establish in Bush's case, his aura of bumbling ignorance always seems to make 2 a difficult one to satisfy . . . .
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Yeah, I mean, I'm not sure I would call Bush a liar, but I would definitely call him an idiot, and I doubt it's really much better to have an idiot than a liar in the Oval Office.
Anyway, even if he doesn't tell Clinton-style straight-faced lies, he and his administration are certainly contributing to the spread of disinformation among his fellow idiots in the general public. The fictions that Saddam was a threat and Iraq was involved in 9/11, maybe Bush never technically lied about them, but with his help the idiots have got a hold of them and use them to delude themselves about the current state of affairs. But Bush ran into a major problem: people are dying, and if there's one thing the idiots can actually understand it's that, so finally he's no longer getting a free ride. It's just too bad it had to happen after he was already re-elected.