Some background.....the specific lies....how he swayed an entire government....
I am not spending much time providing you with a batch of links to the many huge lies told by the Bush II administration officials in the lead up to the Bush wars. Or that Cheney was the spearhead of the invasion effort, in concert with Bush I and Paul Wolfowitz & Co. mainly. It was 15 years ago, and at the time the lies were being shouted from the rooftops. Everyone from Fox and Limbaugh to NYT and NPR were repeating them.
I was in a curious position at the time. A couple of years earlier, I had decided to make a concerted effort to get better informed understanding of Islam and the Muslim world. I started visiting the mosque in Bloomington regularly. My elderly father was in very bad health and I visited him regularly as well. He didn't do much but watch TV, and everything stopped when Fox evening news started. So I was regularly comparing what people like Cheney were saying to what an assortment of Muslims with strong ties to the Middle East were saying.
The Muslims accurately predicted everything from the easy defeat of Hussein and lack of WMD, to the intractable hatred of everything Bush, to the rise of Daesh.
Comparing their claims to those of my own government left me even more disillusioned than a queer atheist already was, concerning my country.
Not pretty. "Loving my country" became quite similar to "Loving a dysfunctional and drug addicted violent criminal because he's family". I can do it, for various reasons, but it takes effort. Like most important relationships.
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he convinced voters to re-elect GW Bush....
GW Bush didn't get elected in 2000. The Supreme Court decided to let his brother, Governor of Florida, choose the rules by which Floridians would assign all the Electoral College delegates from "his" state.
Having gotten us into an ugly, unwinnable, war the Republicans the launched a campaign against ending the war. One of the biggest lies they told to influence the electorate is called "Swiftboat". John Kerry was deliberately smeared in a successful effort to keep the White House in Republican hands for another 4 years, and it worked.
Didn't it?
Next thing you know, the chickens are coming home to roost. The economy is collapsing, Daesh is on the rise, the federal debt is skyrocketing, illegal workers are flooding the country, China and North Korea are saber rattling, terrorism is on the rise amongst our allies....
But the Republicans like the Koch brothers and Murdoch still managed to fill Congress with teapartiers whose one goal was to wrest POTUS back to Republican power, no matter how much damage it did to the USA. From shutting down the government to grandstand against ACA to birtherism undermining of the President to smearing the top Democratic candidate to follow Obama, ... The Republicans have made it clear to me that they, as a group, care less for the USA than they do for the billionaires that fund the Party.
You can spin that all you want with your stupid false equivalency and lack of interest in democracy and demands for evidence that suits you (when it suits you to demand evidence, as opposed to your claims that Hillary is corrupt) , but I gave up on the ethics of the Republican party in 2010. Their willingness to embrace the undemocratic methods by which Trump and Putin took over the government I won't forget before I die. I'm not willing to vote for anybody who has an (R) after their name again ever.
Tom