Posted on 07/29/2004 12:35:57 PM PDT by epistimes
Bush lied:
* Bush allowed the neocons to create the Office of Special Plans to circumvent normal intelligence vetting procedures,
* he asked only for info the backed his views and thus is guilty of cherry-picking data,
* he distorted CIA reports in public speeches by removing caveats and disagreements between government agencies,
* he used false logic ("we know he had em cause he used em"),
* he jumped the gun several times after the invasion, saying we had "found WMD", and
* he allowed Cheney to continue to make statements that were being contradicted by the CIA.
* he never explained why Powell said in February of 2001 at Cairo, that Saddam had "no significant WMD capability"
* he said to Diane Sawyer "What's the difference?", when addressing the difference between "Saddam has" and "Saddam has not accounted for".
Clinton did say that Saddam had WMD, but it was implicitly stated as an opinion or an educated guess by Clinton.
Bush really lied since he attached a bunch of phony evidence to his assertion which he stated as categorical proof. The evidence was phony in of itself, regardless of whether Saddam really did or didn't have WMD.
Bush is like a cop who plants evidence or misconstrues evidence to fit his theory or the thesis that helps his political aims or that he hopes turns out to be true.
Before the war, the French, Chinese and Russians agreed that Saddam had WMD. The fact is though that even though the Chinese, French and Russians thought that Saddam might have WMD, only Blair and Bush were arrogant enough to say they were sure.
In substance, Bush lied by saying he was sure on WMD stockpiles, when he should have said that he couldn't be sure.
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Totally
Ridiculous
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You are running my blood pressure up and I get an almost uncontrollable urge to go out and strangle a liberal. If I do it will ruin 20 years in the Federal Witness Protection Program!
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How exactly is that "false logic"? It's a fact.
Did he just whip up a couple for the occasion?
Ouch. That is gonna leave a mark.
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