Amazing how Bush deceived the Clinton administration way before he ever came into office! (see above Clinton Quote)
No one is defending Bush or the stupid war! But we must not forget that intelligence pre-9/11 indicated:
Saddam was accumulating WMD
Saddam was dealing with terrorists
Saddam was seeking Nuclear weapons
The assertion of the phase II report regarding Bush's mendacity may be true, but some portion of the report was CYA by the authors. I mean, really, as stupid as Bush allegedly was, he managed to outsmart and deceive almost the entire Democratic leadership, including Ted Kennedy and Joe Lieberman?
"There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein's regime is a serious danger, that he is a tyrant, and that his pursuit of lethal weapons of mass destruction cannot be tolerated. He must be disarmed.
We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and developing weapons of mass destruction."
Senator Edward Kennedy (Democrat, Massachusetts)
Speech at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
September 27, 2002
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"[W]e have evidence of meetings between Iraqi officials and leaders of al Qaeda, and testimony that Iraqi agents helped train al Qaeda operatives to use chemical and biological weapons. We also know that al Qaeda leaders have been, and are now, harbored in Iraq.
Having reached the conclusion I have about the clear and present danger Saddam represents to the U.S., I want to give the president a limited but strong mandate to act against Saddam."
Senator Joseph Lieberman (Democrat, Connecticut)
In a Wall Street Journal editorial Lieberman authored titled: "Why Democrats Should Support the President on Iraq"
October 7, 2002
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark!
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