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Wm. Rusher takes the gloves off in talking about the charges that Bush “lied” about the war:
Now, however, the gloves are off. Bush “lied us into war” is the charge, and the act is clearly to be understood as an intentional misrepresentation of the facts as he knew them.
One recent exponent of this view is former Democratic Sen. (and majority leader) George Mitchell. Mitchell has an air of urbane sanctimony, but he was widely known in the Senate as a vicious partisan. In a TV interview recently, he polished that reputation by declaring that the only true statement Bush made in the run-up to the Iraq invasion was that Saddam was a murderous tyrant – everything else he said was false, including the statement about weapons of mass destruction. When the interviewer protested that all of the leading Democrats were saying the same thing, Mitchell calmly replied, “They believed what Bush told them.”
That statement is such a filthy lie that it has a certain criminal majesty. The assertion is that Bush duped the Democrats. But Bush was only the governor of Texas when Sens. Tom Daschle, Carl Levin, John Kerry and others wrote to President Clinton on Oct. 9, 1998, saying, “[W]e urge you … to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq’s refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs.” And Clinton himself had said, on Feb. 17 of that same year, that “We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction program.”
Mitchell apparently thinks the American people are just too dumb to understand a rebuttal that complicated. We can only hope he is wrong.
worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42693
Now, however, the gloves are off. Bush “lied us into war” is the charge, and the act is clearly to be understood as an intentional misrepresentation of the facts as he knew them.
One recent exponent of this view is former Democratic Sen. (and majority leader) George Mitchell. Mitchell has an air of urbane sanctimony, but he was widely known in the Senate as a vicious partisan. In a TV interview recently, he polished that reputation by declaring that the only true statement Bush made in the run-up to the Iraq invasion was that Saddam was a murderous tyrant – everything else he said was false, including the statement about weapons of mass destruction. When the interviewer protested that all of the leading Democrats were saying the same thing, Mitchell calmly replied, “They believed what Bush told them.”
That statement is such a filthy lie that it has a certain criminal majesty. The assertion is that Bush duped the Democrats. But Bush was only the governor of Texas when Sens. Tom Daschle, Carl Levin, John Kerry and others wrote to President Clinton on Oct. 9, 1998, saying, “[W]e urge you … to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq’s refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs.” And Clinton himself had said, on Feb. 17 of that same year, that “We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction program.”
Mitchell apparently thinks the American people are just too dumb to understand a rebuttal that complicated. We can only hope he is wrong.
worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=42693
