Truth is not a value highly regarded by the left.

On his radio show Dennis Prager often talks about the values held by the right and the values held by the left. Dennis frequently notes that truth is not a value that the left holds near and dear. The leftist mantra "Bush lied, soldiers died" is the best example of this. President Bush did not lie about weapons of mass destruction. But, as Dennis Prager points out, if a lie is repeated often enough, people believe it. And that is what happened with this whole Bush lied nonsense.

Look, I may be beating a dead elephant here but if Bush lied then so did the CIA. And the inteligence services of the UK and Australia, both of whom supported us in Iraq. The French and German intelligence services lied as well if you believe Bush lied and France and Germany did not support the invasion of Iraq. In order to believe Bush lied you must believe President Clinton lied when he said during his administration that he believed Saddam Hussein had WMD. It's a stretch, kids, that all these folks lied. The may have been wrong or relied upon faulty intelligence or whatever but they did not lie. A lie, for those of you who have attended university, must be a conscious effort to conceal the truth. President Bush must have known there were no WMD in order to lie. Otherwise, it is just a mistake. Like those who used to believe the sun revolved around the Earth, they really believed it. They weren't lying. They were mistaken.

But the Bush administyration lost the communications war on this one. Bush lied is now so widely believed on the left, it is nearly impossible to even talk about. Truth is not a value of the left. Feelings and emotions are. Reactive, knee-jerk politics are, but not truth.