Liars, or just incompetent?

We lie like other people breathe air.

We already knew that Condoleezza Rice was either a liar or an incompetent with very convenient gaps in her memory.

Today's report from the New York Times revealing that the Sept. 11 Commission knew of dozens of specific warnings given to the FAA before Sept. 11 about the possibility of hijackings in the U.S. includes this tidbit:

"The F.A.A. "had indeed considered the possibility that terrorists would hijack a plane and use it as a weapon," and in 2001 it distributed a CD-ROM presentation to airlines and airports that cited the possibility of a suicide hijacking, the report said."

In Rice's testimony before the Commission, she said, "I do not remember any reports to us, a kind of strategic warning, that planes might be used as weapons."She and Chimpy have made statements like this over and over again. They do it because it reflects public opinion. Who among us laypeople could have anticipated that such an attack would happen?

But they knew better. The claim has been debunked before, and now it's being debunked again.

Not that it's too shocking, but these people don't care about us. They only care about amassing and holding power. Consider the fact that today's important story about the safety (or lack thereof) at our airports was kept a secret for months and months, in order to help Bush get re-elected.