Parsing words is the liar’s last resort. So Cheney Boy had
nowhere else to go to justify his absurd claim that the Iraq insurgency was in its
href="http://www.artsjournal.com/herman/archives20050601.shtml#100977"
target='new"'>last throes. “If you look at what
the dictionary says about throes, it can still be a violent period, the throes of a revolution,”
target='new"'>he said on CNN. Uh-huh. If you
look at what it says about arrogant, it’s still spelled C-h-e-n-e-y, who also calls
target='new"'>Gitmo a tropical resort kinda
like a Club Med (“They got a brand new facility down at Guantanamo. They’re very well treated
down there. They’re living in the tropics. They’re well fed. They’ve got everything they could
possibly want.”), B-u-s-h, who relishes calling himself
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/24/opinion/24krugman.html" target='new"'>
R-u-m-s-f-e-l-d, who insists on the
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/23/AR2005062302111.ht
ml" target='new"'>delusion that we’re not losing in
Iraq, and R-o-v-e, who claims liberals wanted to
target='new"'>“offer therapy and
understanding” to the 9/11 terrorists.
THE DICTIONARY STRATEGY
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