<p>Anyone have an opinion on the hearings?</p>
<p>Other than our current admin attempting to spin things their way to drum up support? Na. People are set in their ways on this issue. The 30% that still support this administration will not change their minds. That’s a sign of weakness and all that. Besides what’s a lie when it’s for America’s own good?</p>
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<p>It’s interesting, I was just talking about the U2 Affair today in my A.P. class today. I telling my kids how refreshing it was that while Ike certainly tried lying first when the lie was exposed by the photographs of Gary Powers and the plane that had been shot down, he went before the public and said “I lied.”</p>
<p>I fully expect the government to lie to the people and even understand the necessity to do so from time to time, but I do wish that when they are caught in a lie they would be honest about it. I mean lying to me is one thing, insulting my intelligence is another altogether.</p>
<p>Don’t take it personally…they do it to everyone. 
(But why are they so bad at it? I paid good money for those lies, and I expect them to be better executed.)</p>
<p>I suspect that many of our military and other “heroes” through the ages have enjoyed some embellishment to their acutal feats. In Tillman’s case the facts were just too much for the military to admit at first.</p>
<p>Pretty amazing to watch these folks taking umbrage at how liberties had been taken with the true facts of their service and circumstances (or those of their family members who have served) and how this was done to further deceive the public to drum up support for the “war”.</p>
<p>Even “W” once said himself, fool me once shame on you…fool me twice…I won’t get fooled again (guess he got his metaphors and his WHO lyrics mixed up, but it would seem even he knows the impropriety and danger of deceit. If only he’d practice what he preached.)</p>
<p>“I suspect that many of our military and other “heroes” through the ages have enjoyed some embellishment to their acutal feats.”</p>
<p>And exactly what were Tillman and Lynch’s “feats”?</p>
<p>“I suspect that many of our military and other “heroes” through the ages have enjoyed some embellishment to their acutal feats.”</p>
<p>I think other than choosing Gary Cooper to play Alvin York, probably not much embellishment there. </p>
<p>Vietnam changed alot of things in our country, trust of the military higher ups and administration was one of them. It was returned during GB 1 term and the first saudi defense. The second GB in the saudi defense took us back to vietnam honesty.</p>
<p>“Vietnam changed alot of things in our country, trust of the military higher ups and administration was one of them. It was returned during GB 1 term and the first saudi defense.”</p>
<p>Yeah, as when Schwarzkopf and Powell went on television to announce that they had destroyed all 21 SCUD missile bases when they knew full well they hadn’t even hit a single one. As when Barry McCaffrey went shooting “fish in a barrel”, killing hundreds of soldiers after a ceasefire had been declared and the soldiers were going in the opposite direction.</p>
<p>Well, mini I was trying to be nice…</p>
<p>Well, just 'cause MSNBC pays them big bucks doesn’t make 'em more honest.</p>
<p>Popularity isn’t a sign one way or the other either. Bill may still be considered cute, but it doesn’t absolve him of deliberately inflicting “conditions of life calculated to bring about (the population’s) physical destruction in whole or in part.” (United Nations Convention on Genocide, 1948)</p>
<p>I think we all together “too nice”.</p>
<p>Maybe it was the lighting. I don’t know. As the old lady said…“well he looked honest.”</p>