How Bush Justified A War With Lies

The Bush Administration’s Iraq strategy appeared to be based on the proposition that if you repeat lies enough times, people will accept them as facts.  This pattern of deception and deceit rivals the Nixon Administration and, as former Nixon White House counsel John Dean points out, launching a country into war based on fabrications would make Watergate “pale by comparison.”

In the September/October Columbia Journalism Review, David Greenberg cited BushLies.net as among the few columnists and Web sites that “framed the [Niger] uranium deceptions as part of the President’s familiar M.O., which was to utter untruths with such nonchalance that no one could possibly believe he was deliberately lying.”