Things haven’t been going so well for Bush lately. The insurgency in Iraq has proven to be quite resilient and has escalated its attacks over the past couple of months. Recent polls show that the American people don’t approve of Bush’s handling of the war. But rather than come up with solutions that might get the people behind him, he has resorted to making misleading statements again. During his weekly radio address on Saturday, Bush said: “We went to war because we were attacked, and we are at war today because there are still people out there who want to harm our country and hurt our citizens.”
Was he really trying to make the connection between Iraq and 9/11 again? Didn’t we already go through this over a year ago? I seem to recall that when it became clear the 9/11 Commission was going to conclude that Saddam Hussein had no role in the attacks against our country on September 11, 2001, Bush was finally forced into admitting on September 17, 2003, “We’ve had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11th.”
Oddly enough, a good portion of the public still believes that there was a connection. Apparently there aren’t enough believers, so Bush has started repeating the lie again. Once Fox News starts reinforcing his false claim or, as Bush would say, they begin to “catapult the propaganda,” we’ll once again have a majority of people in our country that believe the lie.
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