The Nature of a Lie

Howdy, friends;

The Center for Public Integrity has published a supposedly unbiased report that George Bush and the Bush administration lied to the public hundreds of times about WMD's and related subjects in Iraq prior to the war.

The Center for Public Integrity is funded by George Soros and others. You can read about their funding at Captain's Quarters. They are hardly unbiased, as you will see in that article. If you haven't heard about George Soros, you need to look into it - he is anti-everything American, pretty much.

Who's lying, here? An organization that is deceptive from the word go (by not admitting their funding, and pretending to be unbiased) is trying to push it's own political agenda, and they are so far left that they're up to their neck in the Pacific.

I've always believed that to lie implies conscious intent to tell an untruth. In fact, looking it up in the dictionary, lie is defined as "an intentionally false statement" (emphasis mine). If you, in good faith, relay information you believe to be good, and it later turns out to be wrong, you didn't lie, although you did tell an untruth that you believed was truth at the time. There's no sin in that, because there was no intent.

The fact is, we know that President Bush relied on information provided by the U.S. intelligence services. Frankly, we don't know if he lied, because we don't know what he knew at the time. Accusing him of lying is a bit over the line; at most, we can say that we don't know whether he lied or not.

As far as we now know, President Bush is guilty at most of trusting the intelligence apparatus of the U.S. government; and that apparatus was in place long before Bush became president. We also don't know whether the intelligence group lied to Bush, or were simply wrong in their assessment of information. Bear in mind that these statements may need to be revised as new information becomes available.

Let's put a little thought into things, and try to separate fact from (politically motivated) opinion, before deciding what we believe - and what we repeat to those around us.

How about you? Would YOU want to be held to the standard that you are responsible for the absolute truth of every statement you made?

Think about it.

-Pop