March 22, 2004 - 9:23am -- jim
"Is Truth Enough?
The Bush Administration's Lies and the Anti-War Movement's Truths"
George Caffentzis
[A transcription of a talk given to the "Truth and Consequences" Anti-War Forum at the
University of Maine, Augusta, Maine, on March 20, 2004.]
1. Polls and Truth
I was preparing an up-date on the developments in the oil industry in Iraq since the US invasion last year when I noticed on the front page of the March 17, 2004 Portland Press Herald a graph showing the results of a poll taken in eight countries concerning the motives of the Bush Administration in launching the war on terrorism (which it elides with its invasion and occupation of Iraq).
It was very disconcerting and has forced me to think again about politics and truth. Along with a little summary up-date of the situation of Iraqi oil industry one year into the occupation then, I want to look more carefully at the consequences of the truth for our political work.