Hmmmmm......funny how the right once again is trying to focus on Clinton. Could it be that they keep remembering the 'I' word in connection in re. to Clinton? Well get over it! Clinton is past tense, Bush is in the present.
<font color=red>Your president lied to us so he could go to war! Deal with it!
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Kristol: Bush Made Misstatements
on Iraq WMDs
In comments sure to be seized upon by Bush
administration critics at home and abroad,
one of the leading proponents of the war in
Iraq said Sunday that President Bush may
have misstated the case that Saddam Hussein
had weapons of mass destruction before the
U.S. attacked.
"We shouldn't deny, those of us who were
hawks, that there could have been
misstatements made, I think in good faith,"
Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol told
"Fox News Sunday."
Asked, by whom, the leading Iraq war backer
explained, "By the president and the
secretary of state, [statements] that will
turn out to be erroneous."
Kristol stressed that he didn't believe
charges from Bush administration critics
that the president had deliberately
distorted WMD intelligence.
But the leading neoconservative writer and
former chief of staff to Vice President Dan
Quayle added, "I hope [the WMDs] are found
but I'm very skeptical.
"We have interrogated a lot of people and we
haven't found a single person who said he
participated in disposing, destroying the
stock of weapons of mass destruction. Or in
hiding them."
Kristol said that Saddam probably "did bluff
a little bit" when it came to acknowledging
he possessed WMDs in 1998, saying that
"[U.S.] intelligence estimates were wrong,
too."
"I don't think we need to be apologetic
about the war," Kristol insisted. But he
said the U.S.'s inability to uncover
significant quantities of Iraqi WMDs means
that the war may not have been as necessary
and urgent as previously believed.
"People like me, who were hawks, said the
war was both just, prudent and urgent," he
said. "I think just and prudent - fine. But
it is fair to say that if we don't find
serious weapons of mass destruction
capabilities, the case for urgency, which
Bush and Blair certainly articulated, is
going to be undercut to some degree."
Kristol, who made his comments just minutes
after Secretary of State Colin Powell said
on the same broadcast that there was no
doubt Saddam had WMDs when the U.S.
attacked, did acknowledge, however, "There
has been evidence that they had an ongoing
weapons of mass destruction program, I
think, even if they did not have as large a
stock of the weapons as we thought." |
