The Big Lie?

Novelist and Catholic Priest Andrew Greely makes a charming comparison.

Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda chief (director of communications, in the current parlance), once said that if you are going to lie, you should tell a big lie. That may be good advice, but the question remains: What happens when people begin to doubt the big lie? Herr Goebbels never lived to find out. Some members of the Bush administration may be in the process of discovering that, given time, the big lie turns on itself.

Notice he didn't actually compare Bush to Goebbels or Hitler for that matter. But he is subtly implying as such.

The president has insisted that Iraq is the central front in the war on terrorism, a continuation of the administration's effort to link Iraq to the attack on the World Trade Center. While almost three-quarters of the public believe that Saddam Hussein was personally involved in the attack, the polls after the president's recent speech show that less than half believe that Iraq is the ''central front'' of the war on terrorism. Moreover, the majority believe that the war has increased the risk of terrorism. A shift is occurring in the middle, which is neither clearly pro-Bush nor clearly anti-Bush. The big lie is coming apart.

There is not and never has been any evidence that Iraq was involved in the 9/11 attack. None. The implication of such involvement was an attempt to deceive, a successful attempt at the big lie.

I'm not sure that the president knows it is a lie, however.

Once again, more misinformation from the Left. The President has said repeatedly that Saddam Hussein had no direct link to the September 11th attacks. Ever. Perhaps Bush did mention Saddam Hussein in the same sentence as 9/11, and perhaps people inferred that to mean Saddam had a direct link to 9/11, but that is a completely different argument than saying the president lied.

However, just what is Greely implying here? Could his implication be that President Bush is on par with Hitler? that the administration is no better than the Nazi Party? It seems using nuance and innuendo is just fine when it is a leftist like Greely doing it, but let the president do the same thing and it is forbidden.

via (Right-Thinking)