The bottom line is that they didn't lie, they had some bad intelligence - along with the ENTIRE REST OF THE WORLD. Saddam's own cabinet thought he had WMDs!
I'm still waiting for you to find the one truth teller who claimed pre 2003 that Saddam had no WMDs. Diversions into minor issues about this detail or that, aluminum tubes or whatever, where you can find experts who said one thing & I can find experts who said the other, do not change the big picture. The big picture was, every sane person was sure that Saddam had WMDs. With his track record and 4 years of no inspections, you'd have to be crazy not to have thought so.
Fact is, before 2003, even the anti-war marchers were claiming we shouldn't go to war because Saddam was going to gas US troops by the thousand.
Nobody lied when they said that Saddam had WMD. Bush did not lie. If the best available evidence convinces you to believe something, it's not a lie to state your beliefs.
Kerry, on the other hand, has a nasty pattern of playing fast and loose with the truth to puff himself up. First it was Christmas in Cambodia, now it's his purported meeting with all the UN Security Council member, which most of them deny. Clearly when his dying mother warned him about "integrity, integrity, integrity" she had good reason to be worried... |
