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Chris, I am not talking only about the politicians in the USA. It's about all of them around the globe.
Politics are not about truth and ideals. They are about people versus people, and in fact people create the politics. People choose what to believe, they chose what is just and what is not. A lie for one is the truth for another depending on which factors people chose to take in consideration and depending on the society where that decision making takes place.
A handful of politicians do not create our environment. We create it our selves with our religion, ideals, or ambitions. The politicians just take that environment and exploit it's potential and they often say lies and do so in order to further the agenda of one group over the agenda of another.
Lets take the hot one. WMD.
Some will say you didn't find them so you lied about them. Others will say just because you didn't find them doesn't mean they weren't there. Others will say we were misled by false intelligence. If you look at it all three are reasonable possibilities. So people chose what to believe based on what they want. So yes I am most certain that a large group of people enables a lie to become the truth or a truth to become a lie, not only in the States, but every place, every country.
The real politicians are people whose names you never hear about...