Lies lurk behind U.S. terror policy

Columns: Lies lurk behind U.S. terror policy:

"President Bush once famously stumbled over the phrase 'Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.' It was a Freudian slip. Bush knew just how often he's put one over on the American people. Why rub it in?

Slowly this country has come to the realization that nothing the president and his minions say is believable, yet they still want us to just trust them. There hasn't been a more dangerous combination of incompetence, mendacity and arrogance since Lansford Hastings encouraged the Donner Party to diverge from the Oregon Trail and take his 'short-cut.'

Bush recently dropped a whopper by telling veteran journalist Helen Thomas that he never wanted to go to war, even as insider memos keep popping up detailing Bush's early intention to attack Iraq. But nowhere has the bald-faced lying been as fierce as in the 'war on terror.' Here, Bush has raised prevarication to national policy. From the president's disingenuous proclamations that all prisoners are treated 'humanely' to the administration's laughable claim that it couldn't disclose the names of those swept into detention after 9/11 because it would violate their right to privacy, there is nothing this crew won't say to avoid accountability."