According to a recent report from the EPA, dioxins and other pollutants were present in the highest concentrations ever recorded in the area affected by 9/11. This could cause sickness and death. But the Bush administration assured those who live and work in the area that the air and environment is perfectly safe.

Rep. Henry Waxman read into the Congressional Record a report showing how the Bush administration has manipulated, distorted or interfered with scientific facts on health, environmental and other issues including:

Abstinence-only education

• Agricultural pollution

• Arctic National Wildlife Refuge

• Breast Cancer

• Condoms

•   Drinking water

• Education policy

• Environmental health

• Food safety

• Global warming

• HIV/AIDS

• Lead poisoning

• Missile defense

• Oil and gas

• Prescription drug advertising

• Reproductive health

• Stem cells

• Substance abuse

• Wetlands

• Workplace safety

• Yellowstone National Park

These lies and distortions serve various constituencies and Bush's corporate cronies. For example, by making up a lie that having an abortion increases the chances of breast cancer, the anti-abortion movement benefited.

Members of Bush's cabinet are also liars. Bush has praised Secretary of Education Dr. Rod Paige, former superintendent of education in Houston, as a miracle-maker.  Paige claimed that the dropout rate for Houston high schools was 1.5%. A state audit showed a dropout rate of almost 40%.  Paige got principles to lie by removing tenure protections and forcing everybody to be re-hired every year.

If you can't lie convincingly, you stone-wall. The White House refused to make public the list of energy plutocrats that met with Bush and Cheney right after they took office. One result of that meeting was Enron and the theft of millions of dollars from California ratepayers.

Another example of stonewalling is Bush's hiding from the public the number and severity of wounded American soldiers brought back from Iraq. It is estimated to be 4,000-8,000. Bush is also hiding the number of Iraqis killed.

Bush's biggest lie of all was claiming that Iraq was involved in the terrorist attack of 9/11. He used this lie to justify the invasion of Iraq.

Other lies that Bush told regarding the war in Iraq:

 

"Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction"

• "Iraq purchased uranium from Niger for its nuclear weapons program."

• "Iraq imported aluminum tubing to use in nuclear weapons production"

• "France sold precision switches to Iraq to be used to detonate nuclear bombs."

• "Saddam Hussein aids and protects terrorists and members of al Qaeda."

• "We're beginning the difficult work of helping Iraqis build a free and stable
     country."

• "The people of Iraq will welcome as liberators the United States when we come."

• "It has nothing to do with oil."

Info from People's Weekly World,
 Socialist Worker,
The Mobilizer

He's a Deceiver
(To the tune of "I'm a Believer")

They said Bush is only spinning fairy tales
Made to terrorize both you and me
Saddam was out to get me
That's the way it seems
Selling nukes to Osama in my dreams.

Chorus:

Then I saw his face, yeah he's a deceiver
Not a trace of truth in his eyes
Is he on drugs?  Nooooo...
He's a deceiver and a believer in his lies. 

I thought trust was more or less a giving thing
Seems the more we gave the less we got
We all know he's lying
Georgie's looking strange
Tied his tongue so much it's tied his brain 

(Chorus)

From George Mann's CD "Hail to the Thief!"

Welfare Deform: 
No Income, Less Childcare

Victory Against 
Saipan Sweatshop Companies