Pathological

In a speech on February 9th, President Bush informed the world that the U.S. has thwarted an attack on the U.S. Bank building in Los Angeles. Proof it was, said the President, that Homeland Security is hard at work. One problem, though...it isn't true.

Again.

According to the Washington Post, people directly involved in the effort, said this:

But a foreign official with detailed knowledge of the intelligence scoffed at Bush's account, saying that the information obtained from Khalid Sheik Mohammed and an Indonesian operative known as Hambali was not an operational plan so much as an aspiration to destroy the tallest building on the West Coast. When I asked a former high-level U.S. intelligence official about Bush's comment, he agreed that Bush had overstated the intelligence.

I don't know about you, but I've had just about enough of this. I've said before that this is a pattern for people with a past of addiction. They get caught in a lie (or a fib) and cannot bring themselves to accept they've done it, take responsibility and not do it again. But this gang just can't fess up.

The list seems endless. Books have been written on it. Web sites are devoted to them. The truly sad thing is there are people who are so caught up in the cult of Bush personality they cannot accept they're being purposely mislead.

I can't tell which is scarier: a government who can't tell us the truth or a voting public who blindly follows leaders. Unfortunately, neither is good.