But wait...there's more.

Move On also offers an e-mail service called "The Daily Misleader" wherein they email you a story about Bush saying misleading things, and getting caught at it. I'm so impressed with their efforts. The sad thing is that it's so easy to find a misleading speech every weekday. This should not be so! Our president should be generally truthful and up-front, or he should shut his mouth! I'm astounded that he continues to lie to the American public. I'm disgusted that he continues to get away with it.

Today's mislead is titled "President Bush's Inspectors Find No Weapons to Support his Claims about Imminent Threat"
No surprise there.

Researching past polls from CNN.com (they usually use Gallup) shows up some interesting things. Remember back when all we had to worry about was what Clinton did with his cigars? Something else happened too. Two of our embassies were bombed, and Clinton bombed Afghanistan and Sudan. Anybody remember that? Of course not, we've had bigger things to worry about. So let's move forward a year. The U.S. and Britain conduct airstrikes in Iraq because the UN weapons inspectors aren't allowed access to the places they want to inspect. The poll questions were all about whether it was designed as a distraction from Clinton's impeachment proceedings. Ring any bells?

Let's take a trip in the way-back machine. The 1980's saw no major wars for the U.S., but a heck of a lot of retaliatory strikes went on. On April 18, 1983 a car bomb kills 17 people at the U.S embassy in Beirut, Lebanon. On October 23rd, that same year, a truck bomb killed about 240 U.S. marines in Lebanon. (the number of dead varies by site)7 minutes later, 38 French peacekeepers were killed with another truck bomb, also in Lebanon. I remember being in school, with all my friends up in arms because we'd just bombed Libya. Why did we bomb Libya back in 1986? Because the largest peacetime American naval armada ever assembled crossed over into Libyan territorial waters in the Gulf of Sidra. Khadafy naturally shoots off missiles at the fleet. U.S. forces then destroy a missile site and three Libyan naval craft. (hmmm. So who started this one? duh.) In retaliation, Khadafy sponsors the bombing on April 5, 1986, of the La Belle nightclub in West Berlin, which killed an American soldier and a Turkish woman. On April 15, 1986, the U.S. retaliates for the La Belle bombing with air strikes against Libya. My classmates all thought we were going to war. Being in a catholic school, we also thought that smacking the shit out of an Arabian country would bring about Armageddon.
How about this one? In July of 1988, the USS Vincennes was sitting in Iranian waters (the reason behind it leaving international waters is classified). It fired a guided missile at an Iranian passenger plane, killing all 290 passengers and crew on board. The United States refused to compensate Iran for the losses. (the matter was quietly settled in 1996) December of 1988 saw the retaliatory bombing of flight 103, and on March 10th, 1989, the wife of the commander of the USS Vincennes was killed by a pipe bomb. Prior to the downing of the Iranian Airbus by the Vincennes, attacks involving airlines were all hijackings.
The list goes on and on, and researching this stuff took me really far off-topic. I'd meant to rant about how much Bush sucks as a president. I still think he sucks. I think he is one of the worst presidents this country has ever had.