Bush many Lies ..........

By Robert Parry

Not only have Washington journalists stayed consistently silent in the face of this false history, some have even adopted Bush’s lie as their own. For instance, in a July 2004 interview, ABC’s veteran newsman Ted Koppel used it to explain why he – Koppel – thought the invasion of Iraq was justified.
“It did not make logical sense that Saddam Hussein, whose armies had been defeated once before by the United States and the Coalition, would be prepared to lose control over his country if all he had to do was say, ‘All right, UN, come on in, check it out,’” Koppel told Amy Goodman, host of “Democracy Now.”
Of course, Hussein did tell the UN to “come on in, check it out.” But that was in the real world, not in the faux reality that governs modern Washington.
Bush’s Iraq lies are now entering a new political generation, seeping into Campaign 2008. At the Republican debate on June 5, 2007, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney defended Bush’s invasion on the grounds that Hussein refused to let UN weapons inspectors in to search for WMD.
If Saddam “had opened up his country to IAEA inspectors, and they’d come in and they’d found that there were no weapons of mass destruction,” the war might have been averted, Romney said.
Not surprisingly, Romney’s false statement was no more challenged by the CNN debate moderators than Bush’s earlier versions had been. By constant repetition, Bush has transformed his lie into what passes for truth in modern American politics.

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