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Iraq and Immigration Lies Pat Boone It's said to be Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels or Hitler himself who said, "If you tell a lie often enough, people will believe it." Certain huge whoppers keep circulating, and they've been repeated so often, so insistently, and increasingly by people who should know better and probably do, that they are being accepted as fact. It's become so irritating to me that I feel I've got to shout, "Quit saying that! It's not so." Someone else said famously, "You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free"; and since I'm a fan of both freedom and truth, I want to set the record straight on certain things. Some now, and some next week. First, "the president lied." Have you been hearing that a lot lately? Increasingly? Have you started to believe it? Well, it's not so so truthful people should quit repeating it. All his opponents, and now even some on his own side of the aisle, are buying into the canard that the president of the United States knowingly fabricated an excuse to invade Iraq, saying that there were connections between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden, and that Saddam had and was developing weapons of mass destruction. Oh, really? Have you forgotten that Hillary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, John Kerry, Joe Biden, our intelligence departments, the British, and indeed all responsible leaders in the free world also believed and said the same things? In a July 2003 interview on CNN, former President Bill Clinton said, "People can quarrel with whether we should have more troops in Afghanistan or internationalize Iraq or whatever, but it is incontestable that on the day I left office, there were unaccounted-for stocks of biological and chemical weapons." Earlier, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, now speaker of the House of Representatives, said, "Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology, which is a threat to countries in the region, and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process." Story Continues Below
And now these leaders openly promote the idea that our president lied . . . when he acted on the same information they believed and proclaimed. Obviously, Saddam was known to have used biological and nerve weapons on at least a half million of his own people, and had included them in his war with Iran, killing perhaps an equal number of his neighbors. Maybe you've forgotten or were asleep, but millions of us saw the oft- repeated tapes of terrorists running in and out of airplane fuselages, rehearsing how to attack and capture airliners, with flame throwers blazing . . . in northern Iraq! Before, and leading up to, 9/11! It was common knowledge to world leaders, including the U.N., that Saddam was actively pursuing and developing nuclear weapons, and had certain top nuclear scientists in his employ. Any child who ever played "hide and seek" can see how Saddam toyed with the U.N. inspectors, moving and hiding his labs and "works in progress" around, never supplying them with any evidence that he'd destroyed what they knew he once did have. And now a marvelous, thrilling, and authoritative book is published by Saddam's own air vice marshall, an ace and an undeniable hero, an eyewitness to Saddam's machinations and plots through both Gulf wars, right up to and including the toppling of Baghdad, General Georges Sada: "Saddam's Secrets" (Integrity Publishers). General Sada was there. He was involved, from the beginning to the end of Saddam's reign of terror, and he can name names, identify who did what, and even reveal what Saddam ordered done with all the incriminating materials and stockpiles and labs, ferrying them across borders into Syria and elsewhere, for "safe keeping." General Sada confirms that Hussein was deeply involved in terrorist training, supplying funds and equipment and out-of-the-way sites to practice the very maneuvers that were employed against America! And he gives intimate, specific details of where, how, and when one Boeing 747 and a group of 727s transported hundreds of tons of chemicals, armaments, and other paraphernalia into Syria under the cover of a "mission of mercy" to help victims of a flood, caused by a broken irrigation dam. This is why I get so upset when I hear even a Republican senator or a member of the administration "admit" that they were mistaken about the presence of WMDs; they weren't mistaken. A close, involved participant in the Saddam Hussein regime has indisputably confirmed what Democrats and Republicans believed at the time . . . and what was true! So please, could responsible media quit repeating the opposition-manufactured lie as though it's the established truth? There isn't space enough here for me to list all the untruths being propagated in our media and by ultra-liberal propagandists, so while there are plenty more I'll only mention one other for now. "Really, those 12 to 14 million illegal aliens in the country are good for America. They do the jobs Americans don't want to do. They're good citizens." Sounds good, sounds compassionate and humane, and actually practical, right? Think again. Our country is a nation of immigrants, true. Most of us or our ancestors came and settled here from other parts of the globe, and we've openly encouraged people to immigrate here and become part of our multicultural society, true. But we've always been a country governed by laws, and the laws are applicable to every citizen, without exception. Till now, every naturalized citizen has been required to study our history, learn our laws and our language, and take standard tests in English before they can become lawful citizens. The reasons for this standardized process are obvious and fair and practical, and any who have been willing to come in through this process have been welcomed as new Americans. They still are. But laws that aren't enforced are meaningless. And the results are catastrophic, not just for the natural citizens, but soon even for the illegals. Already, some of our schools and hospitals and other institutions are being swamped and bankrupted, trying to cater to millions of illegals and when they fail, neither legal nor illegal residents will be served. In our state elections here in California just a couple of weeks ago, our ballots were printed in three languages, Spanish, Farsi, and oh yes English. In our Los Angeles schools, 130 languages are employed in our schools, serving, or trying to serve, 190 major people groups. We're becoming like a huge international "bus station," with hardly anybody able to give coherent directions to people trying to find their way . . . so they can really become good citizens! Laws are the way a society holds together. Without laws that apply to everybody, anarchy and chaos are inevitable. We're in a terrible mess, really not fair to law-abiding citizens or those who have entered the country without regard to the law. Once you poke a hole in the side, the whole ship will sink, with everybody on board. The only answer is to repair the hole, fast, and insist that all passengers respect and obey the laws, for the good of all. Only truth will keep us afloat . . . and free.
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