"What the caterpillar calls the end of life, wise men call a butterfly."

The Misleader
Robert L. Borosage
September 14, 2003


"The scandals surrounding President Bush's lies about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction in his State of the Union address to the nation have overlooked the full scope of his duplicity that night. The White House claims that State of Union addresses are carefully vetted, suggesting that the distortions on Iraq were some kind of rare bureaucratic snafu. In fact, for George Bush, the State of the Union address is a form of presidential performance art. The president's pollsters pre-test key words and phrases. His handlers preview each practiced gesture, dramatic whisper, narrowed eye. The speech is vetted, but as much for message and image as for fact. And in his last State of the Union address, the gulf between word and reality was immense and purposefully misleading."

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