Hypocrisy, Betrayal and Lies By Lance Fairchok

It is no secret that the Democratic Party is opposed to the war in Iraq, which they had previously supported. They claim the Bush administration misled them. Despite access to the same intelligence, despite issuing bellicose warnings for years about Saddam’s weapons and despite a clear voting record, they claim they were scammed.

In a sane world, this would be seen as a remarkably transparent lie. If Republicans were in the same position, the clamor from the media would be deafening. The mainstream press, curiously lacking any desire to examine the Democratic Party hypocrisy, blathers on about peripheral issues handed to them as talking points and in the process finally puts paid to the claim of media impartiality as guarantors of truth. The only truths they know are the ones they choose to ignore. Harry Reid, the Senate Majority Leader, revealed the Democrat bottom line with his usual incomprehensible style:

"I believe myself that the secretary of state, secretary of defense and - you have to make your own decisions as to what the president knows - (know) this war is lost and the surge is not accomplishing anything as indicated by the extreme violence in Iraq yesterday.”

“The (Iraq) war can only be won diplomatically, politically and economically, and the president needs to come to that realization.” – Harry Reid, D-Nevada

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