Why do Conservatives attempt to cover up the truth?

Answer 1

BECAUSE THE TRUTH PROVES THAT THEY ARE LIARS.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14728447/

Senate report: No Saddam, al-Qaida link
Long-awaited analysis also finds that anti-Saddam group misled U.S.

Updated: 3:31 p.m. ET Sept 8, 2006
WASHINGTON - There’s no evidence Saddam Hussein had ties with al-Qaida, according to a Senate report issued Friday on prewar intelligence that Democrats say undercuts President Bush’s justification for invading Iraq.

Bush administration officials have insisted on a link between the Iraqi regime and terror leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Intelligence agencies, however, concluded there was none.

The declassified document released Friday by the intelligence committee also explores the role that inaccurate information supplied by the anti-Saddam exile group the Iraqi National Congress had in the march to war.

It concludes that postwar findings do not support a 2002 intelligence community report that Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear program, possessed biological weapons or ever developed mobile facilities for producing biological warfare agents.

The 400-page report comes at a time when Bush is emphasizing the need to prevail in Iraq to win the war on terrorism while Democrats are seeking to make that policy an issue in the midterm elections.

It discloses for the first time an October 2005 CIA assessment that prior to the war Saddam’s government “did not have a relationship, harbor, or turn a blind eye toward Zarqawi and his associates.”

Bush and other administration officials have said that the presence of Zarqawi in Iraq before the war was evidence of a connection between Saddam’s government and al-Qaida. Zarqawi was killed by a U.S. airstrike in June this year.

Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., a member of the committee, said the long-awaited report was “a devastating indictment of the Bush-Cheney administration’s unrelenting, misleading and deceptive attempts” to link Saddam to al-Qaida.

The administration, said Sen. John D. Rockefeller, D-W.Va., top Democrat on the committee, “exploited the deep sense of insecurity among Americans in the immediate aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, leading a large majority of Americans to believe — contrary to the intelligence assessments at the time — that Iraq had a role in the 9/11 attacks.”

The chairman of the committee, Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., said it has long been known that prewar assessments of Iraq “were a tragic intelligence failure.”

Answer 2

I am a "liberal" but I don't believe anyone really "covers up the truth." Everyone believes in different truths and has different world views and when they become convinced of their belief, it is no longer "covering up", it is a true belief. We all do it. It's human nature. People bend facts in their favor, and if it seems to make sense, they roll with it.

I really don't like labeling people as conservatives and liberals, anyways. There are many crossover beliefs. We are all lucky to live in a country where majority fairly wins out and we have the opportunity to discuss our ideas in public forums. This way, we can all convey our ideas and let others (and the general population) decide what it best. If they decide with something that you don't agree with, you still have the chance to express why you do not agree and try to change public opinion.

Conservatives and liberals will even say they "hate" each other sometimes, but when they discuss anything but politics, they seem to get along just fine. We don't kill each other over it in this country. I think it's because we are all grateful for our opportunities here and know that if we want to make a point, we have the chance to use our brains to convey our ideas, instead of confrontation. We take this foregranted. This is why we don't have political violence here. We all take our losses and understand that we do so through a fair process. Many countries do not afford this opportunity to their citizens, so their citizens turn what it left to them: Violence.

Anyways. We all have our ideas, and sometimes they have pitfalls, so we all try to hang a rope across in order to make sense. We all do it. Because we all seek the "truth", but since it's quite elusive, sometimes we do what is natural in order to upkeep our argument.

Answer 3

Probably for the same reasons all politicians, conservative and liberal, attempt with varying degrees of success, to cover up the truth: To advance their personal and party agendas, to show themselves and their parties in a more favorable light, and to demonize their opponents

Answer 4

I was under the impression that the Liberals set the "gold standard' for covering up the truth!!!

Answer 5

Because Truth is empowering and they don't want anyone to have power but them, However everything that is in the dark must someday come to light. We the people will take back the power give us 19 months or so...

Answer 6

I think that they are trying to help you guys by covering up the truth about you being stupid.

Answer 7

Truth according to whom? Both sides are very loud at calling each other liars just because it is the other side.

Answer 8

Speaking of truth,,,,,are you one of those brainwashed people that really thinks one party is all truthful and the other party isn't?

Answer 9

Why do liberals lie about conservatives every time they post here?

Answer 10

no matter how hard we try we will never be as good as you liberals,when it comes to hiding the truth!