All Fluff, No Stuff
SOTU '03: Usurper Boy's Minders Confuse Barefaced Lies with "Evidence"
by Tamara Baker

Jan. 29, 2003 -- SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA (APJP) -- Well, I've seen the latest speech by the Pretzeldent.

The tame cable-media courtesans kneeling around him all said he was majestic and magnificent and thrilling.

Funny -- to me he sounded like he'd been raiding his niece Noelle's Xanax stash.

I continue to be amazed by Karl Rove's audacity in putting bald-faced lies in the mouth of his charge. Nothing like knowing that the TV and radio shills, from whose lips come the only "news" most Americans every get in this Age of the Dying Newspapers, are shackled and collared to the RNC platform, and thus will never challenge these lies on the air.

Lie Number One: George W. Bush's promised State of the Union "evidence" of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction turns out to be the same bunk that's been debunked already by Scott Ritter and the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Over the last few months, the IAEA has said repeatedly that the aluminum tubes Bush's people keep bringing up are not, repeat, not, usable for nukes. And during that same period, Scott Ritter and other chemical-warfare experts have said, repeatedly, that Iraq not only has no new chemical-weapons stockpiles, but that all of the old ones that they got from Ronald Reagan and the first George Bush are now so old that they're all just, in Ritter's words, "harmless goo."

Lie Number Two: Bush's rationale for invading Iraq is thin, and his economic "stimulus" plan is even thinner.

A true stimulus package gets money out of the bank vaults and into the economy, where it can do some good. Bush's package, instead, sucks the money out of the economy and sticks it back into the bank vaults of the very rich, who will sit on it till Kingdom Come. We've already seen the effects of his first "stimulus" scheme: in barely over a year, we went from an economic slowdown into a full-blown recession. If he gets away with this new scam, we'll soon be using the word "Depression" to describe the state of our economy.

Lie Number Three: Bush tried, again, to link Iraq and Hussein to Al-Qaeda, but his "links" have always been disproved, time and time again.

In fact, even the conservative Cato Institute, usually a firm backer of Bush, states that Pakistan, not Iraq, coddled the anti-American Taliban and Al Qaeda during their formative years, and helped them to take over Afghanistan and turn it into a terrorist state.

Now, even as Bush pushes again for invading Iraq, we have word that fighting has erupted again in "pacified" Afghanistan, the hideout of Al Qaeda and its leader, Osama bin Laden.

You remember Osama, right?

He's the guy who, unlike Saddam Hussein, actually has attacked and killed thousands of Americans on their own soil (and hundreds of UK citizens, working in the Twin Towers). He's the guy Bush was going to bring back dead or alive.

But Bush hasn't even come close to delivering on that promise, even though he's turned. Why is Bush letting this slide so he can go invade Iraq?

Bush's infamous credibility gap gets wider with each day, as his dropping post-9/11/01 polls show. Even with a subservient US corporate media propping him up, not even a State of the Union Speech boost can save him for long.

George W. Bush can talk pretty when given a script, but his deeds tell another story. He's all fluff, no stuff, and his words are empty. Just ask Osama.