Yes, but he's lied or mislead us so many times,


Dave wrote:
You mean like that denial that there were secret prisons, which Oz and Doug
seem to have so much trouble locating?


Oh yeah Dave, the Bush Administration many times has said,
"Yeah, we use former KGB facilities to torture people in. We
fly prisoners overseas so they can be tortured outside the
U.S. by non-U.S. gov't agencies. Sure, we kidnap people and
hold them secretly."

Have they said that? No.

You could say, "The question has never been asked" but then
you have to explain the constant far-right-wing whining
about how these dadgum libby-rull traitors asking these
kinds of questions are helping the terrorists.

You could say that they have consistently answered "No
comment" which is slightly more believable. That has been
the answer a number of times. But the fact is that they have
said "No of course not, we don't do those things" many many
times.

Here's an example, a couple of weeks ago a reporter asked
President Bush about civilian casualtis caused by U.S.
forces. In the past he has refused comment, and the
administration has always been very hostile to suggestion
that U.S. forces have directly caused civilian casualties
(even if by accident). So I was startled to hear him say
something to the effect of 'We don't keep any official total
but at meetings I've heard numbers mentioned in the area of
25,000.'


Somebody's got a credibility problem, but I don't think it's GWB.

Maybe it's the people making excuses for him.

DSK