From the start of the Bush Administration in 2001, it's been nothing but one big lie. Catchphrases such as "compassionate conservative", "uniter, not a divider" and "no nation building" were just the beginning of a long list of outright falsehoods that have become the trademark of George W. Bush and his cronies. With his second term under way, we can add No Child Left Behind, clear skies, a tax cut for the middle and working classes, Support the Troops and, most notable of all, weapons of mass destruction. Lies supplanted by more lies.

Now we're supposed to believe we're in Iraq to "liberate the people." Funny that we should seek to liberate a people that we helped Saddam Hussein enslave by putting him in power and arming him. Curious that we should risk our troops in an oil-rich country rather than say, Rwanda, where hundreds of thousands have also been slaughtered. Of course, the Downing Street Memos have revealed the insidious lie and a plan to enlist British Prime Minister Tony Blair in it. The simple truth is that our President has deceived the American people from Day One.

When Bush speaks to his hand-picked crowd of zombies, you have to ask yourself, What are they thinking? Why don't they wake up? What will it take for them to realize that they are pawns on Bush's crooked chessboard? The blind loyalty shown by Bush's Christian soldiers is no different than the loyalty Hitler got from his storm troopers. That's right, I just made a Nazi comparison. But unlike Senator Dick Durbin (D-Illinois), I'm not going to apologize.

Larry Flynt
Publisher,
HUSTLER Magazine