Of The Dozens Of Reasons For Not Starting A War With Syria, One Reason Jumps Off The Page

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me a few dozen times...

Remember Benghazi? Ben who? Oh yeah, that Ben.

Almost a year since four Americans were slaughtered in Libya, we still don't know the details of events of that terrible evening. A lot of dots have not connected themselves. What do we know?

We know that there has been a detailed and to date successful cover-up. We cannot pinpoint the president's involvement, lack of involvement, indifference or for that matter, the company he kept as Americans died. We also know that the president and all of his administration lied--there is no other word. Journalists will not use that word but the falsehoods were intentional and unusually sinister--to the world about the motives and nature of the attack. There was no spontaneous mob and the non-existent mob was not motivated by a Youtube video. But the administration lied and repeated the lie every chance they got.

This administration has zero credibility. No administration has lied so frequently or so boldly as The Obama Administration. It might have been different in places like Yugoslavia but in the good old USA, no political body had ever successfully hijacked the national press. Not until Obama came to town. Obama was given a license to deceive and he his administration is emboldened with each passing day. The Benghazi cover-up was a series of lies the media helped advance but we could list dozens of other topics where the news media facilitated the administration's duplicity. Now, they want us to rubber stamp yet another war. I think not.

I for one retain doubt that Assad has used chemical weapons but if he has, it is not a red line. Putin called John Kerry a liar regarding his comments about Al Qaedah. I don't know if Kerry is bearing false witness now but what difference does it make at this point? This administration has lied so habitually that it becomes a waste of time to sort out the nuggets of veracity. Kerry has joined an administration he knows to be rotten to the core. Beware the company you keep.

Putin is blaming the chemical attacks on the Al Qaedah-backed rebels. By any measure, Putin is more truthful than Obama. This administration has exhausted its quota of lies but now we are asked to participate in this wag the dog publicity stunt. I can't believe we are even taking this request seriously.