Bush's Alternative Universe

Where Black is White, Up is Down and 2+2=3

For the extreme right winger, the world is full of convenient oversights and dismissals. Even the most well documented and chronicled events are overlooked, tossed aside and dismissed when it doesn't fit within their tightly constructed network of fabrications. This, of course, has especially been their modus operandi since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and is the only way the lies have been perpetuated to the point that 43% still believe that Saddam Hussein was involved in 9/11 according to a recent CNN poll, even though this theory has been widely discredited.

The new America in which we live is one where there is no accountability for what government officials say or do, and in which presidents can hide behind cleverly placed qualifiers and semantic acrobatics. For example, at a recent press conference that received a bunch of attention, when asked what Iraq had to do with the attacks of September 11, 2001, Bush said, "Nothing." He then added, "Nobody's ever suggested that the attacks of September the 11th were ordered by Iraq."
Pay close attention to Bush's clever use of language. He said, that no one ever suggested that Iraq "ordered" the attacks of September 11th. In fact, no one in the Bush administration has ever explicitly said that Iraq "ordered" the September 11th attacks, but Bush & co certainly suggested links between Saddam and Al Qaeda, which despite Bush's attempt at plausible deniability, pretty much served the same purpose. Any suggestion of links between Al Qaeda and Saddam, prior to the Iraq invasion, were surely intended to create the impression that Saddam had a hand in the planning and execution of the attack. In fact, not only did they suggest such a link in various speeches and interviews, but it was strongly suggested in a much more official way-President Bush's letter requesting the authorization to use force against Iraq: