Even now, almost a year after Bush left office, it is difficult to forget the lies and government-sponsored deceits in which it was claimed that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, Iraq was making deals with al-Qaeda and, perhaps the most infamous of all, the United States did not engage in torture.

via t r u t h o u t | The Politics of Lying and the Culture of Deceit in Obama’s America: The Rule of Damaged Politics.