All Lies all the time

Paul Krugman makes the point that many of us have been making about dubya's National Guard Service, it's not how he got in, it's not how he served, the real problem is he has lied about it.

It's the dishonesty, stupid. The real issue in the National Guard story isn't what George W. Bush did three decades ago. It's the recent pattern of lies: his assertions that he fulfilled his obligations when he obviously didn't, the White House's repeated claims that it had released all of the relevant documents when it hadn't.

It's the same pattern of dishonesty, this time involving personal matters that the public can easily understand, that some of us have long seen on policy issues, from global warming to the war in Iraq. On budget matters, which is where I came in, serious analysts now take administration dishonesty for granted.

Of course this lying is pretty insignificant compared to others. Over 1000 US soldiers and 10 to 30 Iraqi's have died because the Bush administration cooked the books on Iraqi WMD. Krugman goes into some detail on how they have cooked the books (aka lied) on the deficit and the economy. I'm not going to repeat that here, go read Krugman for the details.

The point is, although all most politicians may stretch the truth, this administration is made up of pathological liars and their lies are getting people killed and will eventually result in the collapse of the US economy.