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kamikazee -- I'm not going to respond directly to your posts. Here's why:
First, I wouldn't know where to start. I have scarcely heard a public statement from anyone in the Bush administration (or from his Reich-wing allies in the media) that does not contain half-truths and outright lies. And as Mark Twain once famously noted, it is much easier to spread a lie than to counteract it. This is a classic propaganda technique -- to bury your opponents in so much bullshit that they spend all their time just trying to catch up.
If I started documenting everything that has formed my political views, I would be at it 24/7 and would soon be kicked off this forum for overloading the servers, I have no doubt. Also, there is this -- if you pay enough attention, you will eventually develop a "nose" for deception and propaganda. Often you can tell when someone is using it on you, even without knowing exactly what facts they are twisting.
I just turned 50. Age doesn't necessarily make you wise, but I tell you this: if you are a decade or two younger than me, you have never lived in a United States that was not flooded with corporatist, right-wing propaganda, and there was plenty of it around even before I was born, too. It's in the very air you breathe and the only defense is to actively educate yourself. So far, they** haven't managed to completely neuter the Internet and (some) public libraries. The Truth is out there, but you do have to go looking for it.
** "they" refers to the bad guys, which includes but is not limited to, the whole Bush family, all his administration and most of the corporate-owned Democratic and Republican parties. The main difference between Democrats and Repubs these days is that when the Dem's faq you over they feel guilty about it. The Republicans, on the other hand, take their ability to do so as a sign of mental and moral superiority.
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