[Lazamataz]

I hate when that happens.

[The G Man]

"Bush has been widely criticized for misleading the public ..."

Oh?

[TomGuy]

President Bush, trying again to explain the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq

KATHUNK!!!

In a related development, Randall Mikkelsen, author of this Reuters report, was injured as he fell from his chair due to his slanting this article so far to the left. Although he is expected to recover, physically; physicians would make no predictions on his mental condition.

[hole_n_one]

Bush has been widely criticized for misleading the public by asserting that Saddam had stockpiles of unconventional weapons that menaced the world.

It reads like a statement of fact, which it is not.

[Jorge]

Bush has been widely criticized for misleading the public by asserting that Saddam had stockpiles of unconventional weapons that menaced the world.

If Bush mislead the public then so did Clinton and Gore, numerous Democrats, the United Nations security council, UN inspectors, and intelligence agencies of the UK, Germany and many other nations, and Iraqi defectors ALL of whom claimed Saddam has WMDs that were a threat to the his neigbors and the world.

This focusing only on Bush is disingenious and phoney...and mostly a tactic of hypocritical Bush haters who would bash him no matter what he did.

[b4its2late]

[b4its2late]

[b4its2late]

[jimbo123]

Randall Mikkelsen -- Reuters America - Washington Bureau

Title: White House Correspondent
Department: Headquarters
E-mail: randall.mikkelsen@reuters.com
Phone: (202) 898-8392
Fax: (202) 898-8383
Address: 1333 H St NW, Washington, DC 20005

[rwfromkansas]

Apparently Reuters doesn't like inserting "allegedly" when it is a Republican:

"Bush has been widely criticized for misleading the public by asserting that Saddam had stockpiles of unconventional weapons that menaced the world."

There should be an allegedly before "misleading" for the sake of fairness and balance.

Then again, when did that matter to Reuters?

[VRWC_minion]

FOX News/Opinion Dynamics Poll. Latest: June 17-18, 2003. N=900 registered voters nationwide. MoE ± 3.
.
"All things considered, do you think the United States going to war with Iraq has been worth it or not?"
		Worth It	Not Worth It	Not Sure
		%	%	%
	6/03	53	31	16
	4/03	64	25	11
.
"On the issue of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, do you believe Iraq currently has weapons of mass destruction, had weapons of mass destruction before the war but has moved or destroyed them, or that Iraq did not have any weapons of mass destruction?"
			%
	Currently has WMD		25
	Has moved or destroyed WMD		54
	Did not have any WMD		12
	Not sure		9
.
"Which one of the following do you believe is most likely to be true? President Bush exaggerated the dangers of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The intelligence agencies exaggerated the dangers of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to President Bush. Both President Bush and intelligence agencies exaggerated the dangers. OR, Neither President Bush nor the intelligence agencies exaggerated the dangers."
			%
	Bush exaggerated		8
	Agencies exaggerated		11
	Both exaggerated		24
	Neither exaggerated		43
	Not sure		14

[VRWC_minion]

Mahmud, who ranked behind only Saddam and his sons in importance in the Iraqi regime, has told the interrogators that during the weeks after the war with the United States he spent time in hiding with the former Iraqi leader himself. But Mahmud told interrogators that the group split up at an unspecified time before he left for Syria with Odai and Qusai, according to the U.S. officials. Along with the information about Saddam's sons, the U.S. officials said, he was providing information about Iraq's suspected program of weapons of mass destruction, and that he had contradicted evasive accounts from other former senior Iraqi officials now in U.S. detention.

Its a dangerous assumption to ones credibility to conclude the US has no knowledge of the existance of weapons of mass destruction. Its a safer bet that the adminisration has decided to withhold details for now.

[solo gringo]

The democreeps French and germans along with some other useful idiots made sure they had 14 months to hide and transfer the Wmds.

[wattsmag2]

More and more, I think that the Buckerrooster is really a Democrat in drag.

[Old Fud]

And in the regime's final days, documents and suspected weapons sites were looted and burned," Bush said in his weekly radio address.

Garbage. Absolute garbage. Our intelligence couldn't track burning and looting of these weapons sites to prevent American bloodshed? Please, anybody, prop up this new claim created out of whole cloth.

[aSkeptic]

There were plenty of other good reasons to go to war in addition to the lies.

[Rome2000]

Bush has been widely criticized for misleading the public by asserting that Saddam had stockpiles of unconventional weapons that menaced the world.

Another preposterous lie from the soon to be extinct leftist media.

The only people criticizing W are leftist dogs and thier puppet masters in the press.

The American people know what time it is.

[Rightwing Conspiratr1]

"For more than a decade, Saddam Hussein went to great lengths to hide his weapons from the world. And in the regime's final days, documents and suspected weapons sites were looted and burned," Bush said in his weekly radio address.

Yeah right.