Dr. Forbush Thinks

Sometimes people lie and they can argue that they didn’t know the truth. For example, before the Iraq War Dick Cheney told the press that he knew the exact location of the Weapons of Mass Destruction. When asked the specifics he said that they were north and south and east and west of the city of Baghdad. It was quite obvious from the tape that Dick Cheney either knew exactly where the WMDs were, or his CIA intelligence was wrong. After all, with the sighting of those specific locations it was clear that Dick Cheney knew exactly where those WMDs were. Why should anyone have doubted the intelligence of the United States of America? So, it is quite plausible that Dick Cheney must have been given bogus intelligence by the CIA or his creator.

Some lies are more about what they don’t say than what they do say. For example, the truth about abortion is not as clear as either side would have you believe. The anti-abortion crowd would have you believe that seconds after conception there is a fully formed child in the uterus that is entitled to the same rights as a baby that is just born. Any thinking person knows that it isn’t the case. The person that knows this better than any other person is the mother who carries this child. Once the baby begins to kick within the womb the mother knows that she is carrying a living thing. What person could kill a living thing but a psycho that goes and kills kittens in the back yard? Does anyone really want a psycho to raise a child? A mother who wants an abortion at some late stage knows in her heart why and why should we question someone who is so certain about this crucial issue.

But, the lies are not as clear-cut from the pro-choice side either. They tend to make it sound as if every woman is able to make this serious choice at any age alone with only the help of the center who wants to perform the abortion. Obviously this is not the case either. Any young mother needs to have the support of their support group whether it is friends or family or husband. And, the specific situation for every case needs to be brought to mind.

But, the main point about abortion is, do we want the government to intervene? Republicans have been telling us forever that the government isn’t equipped to make complex decisions in complex situations. Isn’t the case of a woman’s abortion one of the most complex and complicated situations that any of us would ever face? Why would we trust this decision to the government? Isn’t the woman with the help of her support group the method we should trust in making this decision? After all, there are some people who believe that a fetus conceived one minute ago is equal to a newborn baby. If this is the case and we were to pass a law to the effect that this was the case the government would be responsible to enforce the protection of this “child.” This would mean that anyone who is potentially pregnant would need to be screened for any potentially harmful toxin. Do we want the government to check our crotches to learn whether we might have had sex? Do the Republicans really want laws prevent people from drinking and smoking? I thought that Republicans were against these types of laws, but since fetuses are the most susceptible to these toxins they would need to be protected.

But, instead of having the debate about this hot button issue people on both sides of the issue tell these subtle lies that are meant to persuade the other side to their cause. Obviously the other side can see through the lies and they hold with even more resolve to positions. Instead of being reasonable about the debate we hear about women forced to bear children from the product of rape or incest. We are told stories of women killing their children. We are told stories about women dying because they were forced to carry a child to delivery. We are told women can’t make their own decisions, because they can’t be trusted to make the right choice. We are told that only the government knows what is right for these women. Come on conservatives, you have already told us that the government doesn’t know what’s best for us when it comes to seatbelts, and safety and pollution. How is it that the government knows what is right about abortion?

There are still more lies that don’t make much sense. In fact, the very people who told us that Clinton shouldn’t have gone into Bosnia to protect the people from Slobodan Milosevic told us that we needed to go into Iraq to protect the people from Saddam Hussein. Is that stupidity or just an obvious lie? And, these were the same people that told us that we were not in the business of nation building, but they are in the middle of nation building in Iraq. In order to have such wild swings in these statements there must be more to the truth than these statements. Unfortunately the politics won’t allow the politicians to tell us the truth and come clean. Helen Thomas gave George W Bush the opportunity to come clean, but he continued to propagate the lie and Helen Thomas was made the punching bag for the supporters of the administration.

The lies go on and America continues to suffer.

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