Whenever my mom says “Tell the truth you won’t be in trouble.” I would almost always end up telling the truth and i end up getting in trouble and she would talk to my dad and all kinds of things, what’s the most successful Lie in History?

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        I don’t know, it was pretty successful in enriching a number of bloodthirsty and soulless goons in the MIC, and helping to continue to destabilize the middle east and generate more terrorist sympathies to the west given the awful methodology employed.

        It’s all about perspective.

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      Though it’s important to remember that the whole WMD thing came from British intelligence; Bush’s fault was blindly trusting their intelligence or, perhaps more accurately, accepting our own intelligence’s appraisal of “maybe” as enough confirmation.