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Truth for a Change

After all the dishonesty from Bush and Cheney in the last week, some of it breath-takingly blatant, little wisps of the truth sometimes slip through. Don Rumsfeld accedently admitted that he has never seen any evidence that showed Sadaam Hussein was connected to 9/11, and Paul Bremmer of the Coalitional Provisional Authority told an audience that a costly mistake was made in not putting enough troops on the ground in Iraq.
I see from the pages of the Washington Post that the Bush administration, while spinning so fast on the Dufler report that they might turn to butter, has at last told the unvarnished truth about something.
Speaking about Bush’s vitriolic attacks on Kerry in the last few days, the Post said,

“A Bush adviser said the president hopes to change the dynamics of the race … The strategy is aimed at stoking public fears about terrorism, raising new concerns about Kerry’s ability to protect Americans and reinforcing Bush’s image as the steady anti-terrorism candidate, aides said.”

Wow! What a breath of fresh air! I applaud the White House’s brief brush with honesty and hope it may become a habit. At last they admit that they are trying to scare people into voting for the President with stunts like the recent school alert, set off because a civil engineer in Iraq had plans for several american schools- to use to rebuild schools destroyed by the Bush war.

The article also pointed out, to those lucky enought to read it:

Finally, Bush said Kerry would increase spending by $2 trillion or more. “That’s a lot of money — even for a senator from Massachusetts,” Bush said, to thunderous applause and laughter, repeating Cheney’s exact words from the night before. What he did not mention is that budget experts say the president has proposed even more additional spending, perhaps $3 trillion.

Isn’t it nice to hear the truth for a change?