Slog - Comments on A Lying Sack http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack According to the White House, that sign behind Bush... ...it was not referring to the war in Iraq but to something else entirely, something to do with the ship returning home. The sign just happened to be there, and the White House regrets that the American public thought it had anything to do with the victory speech. After shifting explanations, the White House eventually said the "Mission Accomplished" phrase referred to the carrier's crew completing its 10-month mission, not the military completing its mission in Iraq. Bush, in October 2003, disavowed any connection with the "Mission Accomplished" message. He said... Copyright 2008 Thu, 01 May 2008 08:59:57 -0800 Thu, 01 May 2008 16:28:25 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by monkey That's right bitch, year after year after year, so SUCK IT!

]]> monkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010541 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010541 Media Thu, 01 May 2008 09:09:49 -0800 Comment by Andrew I am really really tired of the Mission Accomplished banner always coming up. Time to move on or get therapy people.

]]> Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010545 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010545 Media Thu, 01 May 2008 09:11:56 -0800 Comment by max solomon @ 2: is that really you, Tony Scalia?

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010547 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010547 Media Thu, 01 May 2008 09:15:57 -0800 Comment by Reverse Polarity Keep spinning, Dana. Keep spinning.

]]> Reverse Polarity http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010555 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010555 Media Thu, 01 May 2008 09:23:34 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Not even remotely credible. What's most interesting isn't the lie, it's the audacity of telling such a pathetic lie. It's like a kid denying that he ate the cake when he's got frosting all over it.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010565 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010565 Media Thu, 01 May 2008 09:27:14 -0800 Comment by Alan Charles, There are probably many sighs regarding this, but I think you mean "sign".

]]> Alan http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010570 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010570 Media Thu, 01 May 2008 09:29:02 -0800 Comment by kid icarus 264 days and counting.

]]> kid icarus http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010572 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010572 Media Thu, 01 May 2008 09:29:24 -0800 Comment by Michael There are a million stories is in the big city...and the White House will use them all...

]]> Michael http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010614 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010614 Media Thu, 01 May 2008 10:09:43 -0800 Comment by ahava I can't believe it took them 5 years to come up with that one.

]]> ahava http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010619 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010619 Media Thu, 01 May 2008 10:15:10 -0800 Comment by Sargon Bighorn They have a banner for a 10 month mission? Huh? Do they all get gold stars by their name too?

]]> Sargon Bighorn http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010629 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010629 Media Thu, 01 May 2008 10:21:39 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Eight years of Lying.

Almost 4100 dead.

Around 50,000 wounded.

And half a million Iraqis dead.

All for ... LIES.

How many more days of this incompetent batch of fools?

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010633 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010633 Media Thu, 01 May 2008 10:22:21 -0800 Comment by scharrera That man is a sorry excuse for a human being. There is a special place in hell being reserved right now. I know, cliche, but if the cliche fits...

]]> scharrera http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010635 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010635 Media Thu, 01 May 2008 10:25:40 -0800 Comment by Porkchop Sandwiches! WHSPILF

]]> Porkchop Sandwiches! http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010645 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010645 Media Thu, 01 May 2008 10:34:52 -0800 Comment by David Jesus, you think they could just admit they were wrong. Certainly that'd be better than admitting to being utterly stupid liars.

]]> David http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010666 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010666 Media Thu, 01 May 2008 10:53:13 -0800 Comment by left coast Their defense should be that this was a while before they totally fucked up. It's before they sent Bremmer to Iraq and de-Bathification. That was really when the civil war started. And yet, Rove is at CNN and Kristol is at the NY Times.

@2, the same guys are trying to start a third war with Iran right now. How is their total ineptness and complete lack of interest in the people fighting wars not an issue anymore?

]]> left coast http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010693 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010693 Media Thu, 01 May 2008 11:28:20 -0800 Comment by inkweary Just when I think it is impossible to become more cynical. This administration will stop at nothing. There is just no lie too obvious to attempt, no truth too evident to deny.

]]> inkweary http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010732 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010732 Media Thu, 01 May 2008 12:04:35 -0800 Comment by Grant Cogswell I almost laughed, and then I remembered more than a hundred thousand people died because of this jackass. Incredibly, incredibly pitiful. This is true, Orwellian, Soviet-style propaganda, the lies that are so transparent but that is not what matters. It is the numbing repetition of them, and the attempt to dissolve truth, to dissolve meaning.

]]> Grant Cogswell http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010753 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010753 Media Thu, 01 May 2008 12:14:33 -0800 Comment by Original Andrew Grant Cogswell @ 17,


That's the true horror that Orwell couldn't conceive of when he wrote 1984. It's not that the government would lie and become corrupted by power as governments sometimes do; it's that people don't even care enough to do anything about it and the media doesn't even have to bother making the lies and propaganda believable.


To the Bushbots and their supplicants, their words are not lies, they're differences of opinion. There is no truth and there are no facts anymore.

]]> Original Andrew http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010812 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1010812 Media Thu, 01 May 2008 13:15:25 -0800 Comment by left coast @17 and 18, agreed that we're living an Orwellian nightmare, and the complicity of the corporate media is really the key. Although having corps like AT&T help them eavesdrop and then having Congress grant them immunity or setting up a govt in Iraq that grants contractors such as Blackwater immunity is really the innovation that they've brought to facism. Maybe China will force into bankruptcy before we totally devolve into a fascist military dictatorship.

Original Andrew, it's not 'differences of opinion', it's 'partisan bickering'. Remember, they favor 'smaller government', except when it comes to military spending.

]]> left coast http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1011009 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1011009 Media Thu, 01 May 2008 16:05:43 -0800 Comment by Lee My then-boyfriend was one of the sailors on that ship when Bush gave the speech. He joked to me that it was Bush's people that hung that banner and the war was far from over. What bullshit.

]]> Lee http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1011050 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/a_lying_sack#c1011050 Media Thu, 01 May 2008 16:28:25 -0800