Can we believe Osama is really dead due to the government's bad record of lying?
INFAMOUS LIES
President McKinley told the American people that the USS Maine had been sunk in Havana Harbor by a Spanish mine. The American people, outraged by this apparent unprovoked attack, supported the Spanish American War. The Captain of the USS Maine had insisted the ship was sunk by a coal bin explosion, investigations after the war proved that such had indeed been the case. There had been no mine.
NOT AMERICAN, but Hitler used this principle of lying to his own people to initiate an invasion. He told the people of Germany that Poland had attacked first and staged fake attacks against German targets. The Germans, convinced they were being threatened, followed Hitler into Poland and into World War 2.
FDR claimed Pearl Harbor was a surprise attack. The United States saw war with Japan as the means to get into war with Germany, which Americans opposed. So Roosevelt needed Japan to appear to strike first.
Lyndon Johnson told America that the North Vietnamese had attacked us in the Gulf of Tonkin. As a result, tens of thousands of Americans and millions of Vietnamese lost their lives in a no-win war.
Bill Clinton told America that he "did not have sexual relations with that woman."
"Read my lips: no new taxes."
"Vince Foster committed suicide."
"Saddam Hussein is a direct and immient threat to the United States of America."
YES
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NO
Side Score: 3
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If your going to lie, you lie big. If you get caught, chances are there is probable doubt concerning if you lied(after all, who would lie about such a thing?). In this case, if your a government official that lied you would Just say your intelligence was bad and you got a cousin or something instead. you fire those below you for their "bad intelligence". Side: No
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When it comes to highly controversial or scandalous issues, notoriously, the federal government has been know to lie. How can the government lie? It is so benevolent and pure. The government is not on your side, it is not left vs right, it is the STATE VS YOU. All governments lie because of a political agenda. The lies speak for themselves. The government has a greater propensity to lie when it comes to war and foreign affairs. I don't trust one single word the federal government has to say because beyond it all, the political skeletons are obscuring the facts from the truth. Side: No
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