Ari Fleischer lies, gets smacked down

Every major policy by the Bush regime was built on a carefully woven pattern of lies. Every damn one of them.

Bush is out of office now, but his crew of nation-destroyers still won't give up their sorry falsehoods.

Like a day or two ago, when Bush's former press secretary Ari Fleischer was interviewed by Chris Matthews.

In this interview, Fleischer once again claimed Iraq had something to do with 9/11 - a view that had long since been discredited. In fact, the Bush regime knew from the start it wasn't true. I'm not even going into detail about it again here. But the Bushists claimed Iraq was behind 9/11 just so there'd be an excuse to start a war there.

In short, Fleischer and other members of Bush's regime are nothing but big liars.

Of course, the media fed this lie for years. It rarely questioned it.

Until the Matthews interview, when it finally started to come undone.

Matthews aired a tape of the interview, in which Fleischer said, "Chris, and I believe this still today, and of course you can disagree with it, but after September 11th, having been hit once, how could we take a chance Saddam might not strike again? ..."

Matthews cut away from the tape and discussed Fleischer's dishonesty.

For Saddam to have struck again, he had to have struck once. But he didn't. The regime in Iraq had nothing to do with the Taliban, Al-Qaeda, or 9/11.

Ari Fleischer got smacked down by Chris Matthews, of all people!

CHRIS MATTHEWS!!!

Matthews has usually been friendly to the right-wing brain trust (as it were), but I guess even he couldn't let Fleischer's blatant fibbing muck up the airwaves.

Maybe we should be asking ourselves why anyone was supposed to give a shit what Ari Fleischer thinks. Maybe he's becoming another Newt Gingrich or William Kristol in that he's going to keep being interviewed by every channel about every news event for years after he's past his prime.

Eight years after 9/11, Bush regime officials keep telling the same tired lies.

(Source: http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/3/12/181428/110/7/707827)