Present-day presidents lie to the American people all the time, which is disappointing while also demonstrating the disrespect many presidents show the people in this modern era. One would think that the legacy media would call to account the Presidents that consistently lie about the most important events happening, and would thereby do their duty to the people to expose such chicanery, but we have to remember that the legacy media is controlled by some of the richest, the most powerful, and best connected people in this nation, so that to expect the legacy media to actually provide us with all the news that's fit to print, is to believe that integrity, honesty, and forthrightness, are virtues that the legacy media currently represent, which is really believing in that which no longer exists.
Undoubtedly, President Bush had to say something after the terrorist attacks of 9/11, and his address to the Joint Session of Congress was when he stated that "they hate our freedoms," which is an absolute lie and makes absolutely no sense. To believe that terrorists would attack the United States of America because we supposedly represent freedom, in our religion, in our speech, in our voting, and in our ability to disagree with one another, is first of all not even true within the United States, because those that are of the wrong religious faith have been infiltrated by governmental agents in many instances, and those that speak the wrong words have been locked up or even assassinated, and those that were previously enslaved and represent the un-favored race have consistently been denied fair access to the ballot, and finally disagreements in this nation are often met with violence, arrests, and the silencing of those that have unorthodox views. So then, the freedom that the President claims that we as citizens have so as to be about our business and to fairly express ourselves, without interference by that government, of, for, and by the people, is far from satisfactory, and therefore to proclaim America as essentially the freest country in the world is belied by the actuality of how it interacts with those people.
The truth of the matter is that those foreign agents and nations that hate America hate America for sensible reasons, such as America's constant interference in their affairs as well as exploitation, directly and indirectly, along with the fact that America has military bases positioned all over the globe, including within countries in which those military bases are considered to be not just an affront to the sovereignty of those nations, but an affront to their interpretation of the prevailing religion of their nation. This then would presuppose that America ought to pay attention to this type of pushback from certain countries and thereby be far more considerate in its actions regarding those countries, instead of behaving as the "ugly American," which will thus create the toxic brew that will breed those that might well be inclined to commit terrorist attacks in response to this consistent provocation.
Finally, and this is very important, President Bush, in his speech, claimed concerning 9/11 that "…freedom itself is under attack," which actually is true but not in the way he meant it, because we find that in America freedom and our right to simply be about our business are under attack seemingly all of the time, in which citizens of this nation are ceding more and more of their freedoms to their government, wittingly or unwittingly. But this attack isn't from foreign nations or terrorists; instead, it is an attack from within, for they, our government, hate us citizens for our audacity to speak up and to act upon our convictions when this government wants us instead to shut up, or they will shut our freedom down.