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Show "fKe art 4e4ice4 to tke public Imtervst, to fmimfss OMNI IteflfcK pmnmk 0 exceUence. PwlitMr mfcwiws statement EDITOR: MARK EDDfNGTON MO the Daily herald 344-25- WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, Fort Pinocchio and its soldiers should quit tying to the people The White House, the Pentagon and CIA headquarters must have more professional liars per square foot than any other buildings in the world! To many liars, like the commander in chief, lying is second nature, but most have been specially trained at Public Affairs Liars School. This school churns out hundreds of liars each year. government-traineUpon graduation, the newly certified Pinocchios join the world-clasclub, right up there with Pentagon head liar Kenneth Bacon, an absolute master at shading and evading and spinning and thinning the truth. from Bacon This bunch of liars to the newest flack private first class in the field is about the strength of an Army light division with an annual budget that could keep an Air Force fighterbomber wing running for a year. Sadly, many of these liars are soldiers who have sworn on a- bible to serve their country faithd s prefab-ricator- - fully. Their primary targets are the very s' citizens they serve. We give them our tax dollars so they can snow us, in order to get more tax dollars. Get it? I've been lied to by these dealers of deceit for years. Most of the time, I catch 'em because of great sources serving soldiers who care about our country' and the truth. Here are some recent Pentagon lies to help you spot them too: Lie: The U.S. Navy fired 75 tomahawk missiles at terrorist targets in Afghanistan and Sudan on Aug. 20. Fact: The Navy fired 132 tomahawks missiles. It lied about the number because it used a sledgehammer to swat a fly and because tomahawk missiles cost between $1 million and $2 million a pop sticker prices vary depending on which Pentagon liar you ask. Navy officials don't want you to know that the cost of tomahawking a terrorist ran $5 million a corpse. Lie: The reason there was a rush to attack the mostly targets at the very hour Monica Iewinsky was providing graphic testimony concern- - Sudan that was making feey ingredient for lethal nam ga. The liars demTed this plaitttt a hi security DO facility, guarded by armed IIntellimee 't .; ota-wer- e ; 1bi3ftera11lhe destruction, we know ldieT8. source say there not one scrap of evidence that this plant produced any precursor chemicals for nerve gas. American and British engineers who built and subsequently ran the plant report that it produced medicine and veterinary drugs and was guarded by one night watchmen with a habit of sleepDavid H. Hack-wort- h ing on the job. Lie: Terrorist leader bin laden ing President Clinton's Inappropriate financed the chemical plant. behavior" was that Fact: Our Intelligence community coincidentally, of course terrorist leader Osama can't find the slightest money trail 10 bin Laden was meeting with his chief- prove that bin Laden bankrolled the tains in Afghanistan at just that time. plant.When all is shaken out, besides Fact: Bin Laden knew of the attack our having spent several hundred at least 24 hours before the first mismillion to punch a few craters in tersile thumped down, and sources tell rorist training areas that can be me the commanders' meeting was quickly replaced for a few thousand made up to justify the urgencytim"bucks, well probably end up coughing ing. up another $100 million to replace Lie: Tomahawks were used to the"lethal weapons factory" that was-'ha secret in chemical destroy plant exactly lethal. CIA-bui- Liesgot4isiOnamwhenre- were tcW attach by 3UdTT;ctfs in S64br, ; tjr death a ; isn't true. "But it doesn't remove the ; pain that lie brought to millions pf " innocent people. The Gulf War was one big "lie from beginning to inconclusive end. Smart weapons weren't smart, nor were 'the politicians and generals who lied about how and why the war ended '.diZi the way it did. There's an old saying that truth is '.' the first casualty of war. It's about time we the people demanded that ' '' the'lying stop. And it should Start with the president of the United States, who protest though he and ' . 'the not was complex may clearly straight shooter when he tried 'eliminate bin Laden with extreme.,,,,, , '. prejudice last month. , , ,,, to-..- r. David H. Hackworih is a columnist for King Features Syndicate Inc. ,r ? j J Ktofeir Teresa if Bv JOAN CONNELL NEW YORK JUfl COMMENTARY .1.1 such a vessel would be found in a kitchen, holding milk for a hungry bouquets that have come to symbolchild's dinner. The use of this humble ize popular sentiment over the household object as a grave marker of death Princess Diana are piling makes it seem a vessel full of tears, resto mark anniverthe first up again onating with the sorrow and the pity of sary of her death. But in human brutality, and of the workers' Kosovo, a rough mound of earth thwarted mission to comfort and proheaped upon the fresh graves of tect the innocent caught in a war. from three aid workers the Mother In fairness, during the last years of Teresa relief organization is a stark her brief life, Diana too devoted conreminder that one year ago siderable energy to the poor, the sick Saturday another important Woman and the victimized, lehding her star passed from the scene. and smile Just when it seemed that the memo- power to a variety of charitable causes: of Teresa would Mother be in buried ry AIDS, homelessness and the caman avalanche of emotionalism over a beautiful and assuredly tragic princess, paign to outlaw land mines. Diana visited the outcast, hugged the reported deaths of workers from a humanitarian organization bearing her pariahs for the cameras and crafted a public image of compassion. The name have resurrected the legacy of byproducts of that image are the Mother Teresa, whose faith had the charities established in her name power to transform the world. will continue to raise that surely but was She formidable; plain, tiny, but lit by an inner fire. She was frail, money and awareness to meet human needs. but she was no candle in the wind. But the contrast between Diana Accounts of the deaths of the and Mother Teresa two women Mother Teresa aid workers remain in their own have become who, ways, a news photosketchy, beyond grim in our time contains legends of mourners the graph encircling lessons for our own confused lives makeshift grave of three nameless, and values. It is largely the difference altruistic people who died when Serb between style and service. fired on a of tractors police convoy of Most us live by good intentions Doctors of sent by hauling supplies and the World to stranded refugees from engage in whatever random acts of we manage to perform. kindness the fighting in Kosovo. We feel sorrow for the innocent vicWe don't know their names or tims of war and poverty. But even as occupations. We don't know if they we write the checks to our chosen were male or female. We don't know charities, we keep the receipt for the their religion. What is known is that they were not tax break and give silent thanks for members of the Missionaries of Charity, our own good fortune. It is only the most radical among the order of nuns Mother Teresa established in India more than us, though, who have the courage to the"Mother Teresas, 50 years ago to serve the sick, the dying really serve hot the Dianas; the and the poorest of the poor. Most likely, not the the ones Willing they were ordinary men and women, ethnic Albanians, who were inspired by to shed blood rather than only tears. As the easy sentimentality Over the Mother Teresa's extraordinary mystical vision: To see the face of God in its most death of a princess is again neaped as high in our consciousness as those distressing disguise. boucellophahe-wrappeThe murdered workers were buried at night, according to news reports, quets, it would be useful to remember the legacy of Mot her Teresa and those for fear the Serbs, who have begun a buried beneath that mound of earth harassment of aid workers in Kosovo and the empty vessel of attending to the estimated 300,000 true compassion that still stands refugees fleeing the Serbian military offensive in Kosovo, would target the waiting to be filled. mourners at their grave. Joan Con net I is editor of the "Lacking a gravestone, their resting place was marked by a white jug Opinions section of MSNBC on the Internet. upended on a stick. In times of peace, ready-made- , cellophane-wrappe- d war-tor- n heart-meltin- g sari-cla- d tractcr-driver- s, check-writer- ready-mad- e, d 'full-scal- e Doonesbury 1 I couwpuu I THINK II 1 The mounds of ing'a'maji-dfintegritymd'bohttity- . Ont Shame on you,Ir. 'President. 'against children be madeknown to the publk. Those so iderttified would Include persons falsely accused, per sons bfminor offenses, persons having served probation and paid penalties to the full tent of legal judgmht,sgooti citizens working productively andsup-iportin- g thefr families. SFew of uscah imagine the dire effects ofthis bill. Families will be 'tern apart. 'Frithers will be unable to secure work. 'Welfare rolls will increase. 'Communities will adopt and accord- - Shame on you for 'lying and being deceitful to us.'the Americanipeople. 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