Since the beginning of our second war with Iraq the left has been clobbering Bush for lying about Saddam Hussein's possession of weapons of mass destruction, which was the rationale for out attack on them. Conveniently forgotten was the fact that the majority of intelligence organizations the U.S. was collaborating with agreed that Hussein had them. Conveniently forgotten was the fact that liberal senators Kennedy, Kerry, and Clinton agreed with this assessment. And maybe most importantly is the critical fact that we can not say definitely that he did not have them.. we can only say we did not find them. That's a provable fact. Whether he destroyed some, moved some, had none, nobody can say for sure. So it is possible that Bush was correct to some degree based on the knowledge he had. Were there intelligence failures.. sure. Did they amount to a conspiracy to enable Bush and his team to attack Iraq.. probably not. If Bush pulled this off maybe he is brighter than all the leftist luminaries that insist he can't walk and chew gum at the same time.

I dredge up this ancient history as the result of my Sunday morning perusal of the paper where I noticed a very small article quoting Susan Bailey, president of the Texas Medical Association commenting on a study showing that Texas doctors were fleeing the Medicare system in "alarming rates". Bailey's direct quote: "This new data shows the Medicare system is beginning to implode. If Congress doesn't fix Medicare soon, there will be more and more doctors dropping out, and Congress' promise to provide medical care to seniors will be broken."

We have barely begun the implementation of Obama's Health Care program and already the CBO (Congressional Budget Office) is reneging on its assessment that the program in fact will not be deficit neutral and will increase the deficit another 150 billion. I guarantee this number will go up. We are also learning that we won't necessarily keep our own doctors because big companies like AT&T, John Deere and others have figured out it may be cheaper to pay the fines than insure their employees in compliance with the guidelines. Understand that we are only in the revenue collecting phase and that most benefits don't kick in until 1014.. This program is collect revenue for ten offer services for six... and it still WON"T balance to be deficit neutral.

Contrary to President Bush and the Iraq war, this lie is provable. It's called ideology at any price. And believe this, Obama's lie was from the beginning intended consequences for the ultimate prize, which is big government controlling our lives. Significantly, it is provable that government does a very bad job managing any business. So stop telling me how wonderful the plans are in Europe and how we need to emulate this model. The euro is dropping and the people are rioting. We need to wake up before we're doing the same. And that too is becoming provable with each day.