Do you think Americans are being lied to?

Question

Do you think images like Bush kissing little girls on the forehead are propaganda that boost patriotism in the US in this time of war when the goverment most needs our support?

Answer 1

OBVIOUSLY, the goverment lie to us all the time... "Land of the free".."home of the brave".. Who do you think sends out this rubbish.. it makes me sick, not that i dislike america or i disagree but I can see right through this government.. sad thing is almost every american buys it.. the media is a powerful tool..

Answer 2

Our government is just like the rest of society, there are good people and bad, it is up to us the voters to weed out the bad. Another thing a lot of us need to keep in mind is that just because someone believes differently than we do does not make them automatically wrong or evil. It seems to me that both parties have reached a point where they want everything their way and don't want to compromise on anything. It seems like all any of our politicians do anymore is point their fingers at others and call each other names instead of doing their jobs.I think the best thing we could do for our country right now is get rid of every single politician in office right and start with a clean slate and make it a law that when we elect new people to replace them that their income can be no more than $50,000 a year. Maybe then we can get a congress that has seen and understands how most of us actually live our lives. Right now we have a bunch of rich snobs trying to solve our problems and they have no idea what our problems really are.

Answer 3

George Dubya Bush: Promoting Lies, Demoting Democracy

George W. Bush has, of course, flagrantly violated his oath of office, which requires him "to protect and defend the constitution," and the opposition party has been remarkably reluctant to hold him to account. Among the "high crimes and misdemeanors" that, under other political circumstances, would surely constitute the Constitutional grounds for impeachment are these: the President and his top officials pressured the Central Intelligence Agency to put together a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq's nuclear weapons that both the administration and the Agency knew to be patently dishonest. They then used this false NIE to justify an American war of aggression. After launching an invasion of Iraq, the administration unilaterally reinterpreted international and domestic law to permit the torture of prisoners held at Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and at other secret locations around the world.

Nothing in the Constitution, least of all the commander-in-chief clause, allows the president to commit felonies. Nonetheless, within days after the 9/11 attacks, President Bush had signed a secret executive order authorizing a new policy of "extraordinary rendition," in which the CIA is allowed to kidnap terrorist suspects anywhere on Earth and transfer them to prisons in countries like Egypt, Syria, or Uzbekistan, where torture is a normal practice, or to secret CIA prisons outside the United States where Agency operatives themselves do the torturing.

On the home front, despite the post-9/11 congressional authorization of new surveillance powers to the administration, its officials chose to ignore these and, on its own initiative, undertook extensive spying on American citizens without obtaining the necessary judicial warrants and without reporting to Congress on this program. These actions are prima-facie violations of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (and subsequent revisions) and of Amendment IV of the Constitution.

When Ronald Reagan coined the phrase "evil empire," he was referring to the Soviet Union, and I basically agreed with him that the USSR needed to be contained and checkmated. But today it is the U.S. that is widely perceived as an evil empire and world forces are gathering to stop us. The Bush administration insists that if we leave Iraq our enemies will "win" or -- even more improbably -- "follow us home." I believe that, if we leave Iraq and our other imperial enclaves, we can regain the moral high ground and disavow the need for a foreign policy based on preventive war. I also believe that unless we follow this path, we will lose our democracy and then it will not matter much what else we lose. In the immortal words of Pogo, "We have met the enemy and he is us."

Answer 4

Of course. American is a democracy. In any democracy, those who run for office lie to get votes. It's a time-honored practice known as a 'campaign promise.'

I think even the least sophisticated of Americans are not likely to be taken in by something quite that trite and obvious, though.

Answer 5

What you're describing has occurred in each conflict with each u . s ., the position the equipment has had failure and shortage of performance (the M-16 in Nam, which no doubt value G.I. lives, the undesirable armour vehicles of WW eleven etc.). i'm very confident that their isn't any target of inflicting British casualties yet back " pleasant fireplace " is yet another each conflict mission. for sure the defense force and authorities not in any respect needs the established public to ensure about those subject matters...tremendously the politicians.

Answer 6

Do you honestly believe that he wants to kiss people . He is a pathetic little man . How many days did it take for him to go to poor people of hurricane katrina . Not to mention how long did it take to get up from reading that book on 9/11 . Its all photo opps
.When are we going to realize we need a third party .Rep or Dem could care less about middle america .

Answer 7

Propaganda is a tool that has been used by almost every government in history. I don't feel were being lied to, positive images and news about the war or the president are rarely lies, even if you don't agree with them.

Answer 8

They lied to us about Saddam having WMDs and about him trying to get nuclear weapons. They lied about Iraq being involved in 9/11. They lied about torturing people, and about eavesdropping on Americans who were not suspected of anything. They lied about outing Valerie Plame. They lied about the US Attorney mess which led to the resignation of Alberto Gonzales. They are so used to lying that they do it without even thinking, as a reflex. There's no reason to think it's stopped or that we have discovered all the lies.

Answer 9

By being "lied to" do you mean on a daily, hourly or per minute basis. Be specific and I will answer the question.

Answer 10

Presidents have been lying to the people for years. The lies have just never reached this magnitude before.