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To: i-node who wrote (559582)	4/8/2010 12:53:42 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (2) of 1577835

"1. Making a false statement is a necessary, but not sufficient condition for it to be the act of "lying". " It isn't a lie only if you have no reason to think it was false at the time. But, there was plenty of reason at the time to at least have doubt. And their statements at the time expressed no doubt, far from it. They made the claims that it was clear and certain. That was false. Now, true, if they had expressed anything less than certainty, they never would have gotten support for the war. The only possible answer to that is "well, du-uuuh"... "2. If making false statements is a crime, you may want to look at our current president who certainly has made more false statements than Bush ever did." A dubious assertion at best. A flagrant distortion of reality at worst. "GWB was told by the CIA director that WMD was a "slam dunk"." Which was not at all supported by the intelligence developed by his agents. Tenet had a bad habit of telling presidents what they wanted to hear. According to documentation released, Cheney in particular made it crystal clear what they wanted to hear from the CIA. And the documentation shows that Tenet put pressure to get those answers. Despite that, the CIA still provided those answers full of caveats and noted that a lot was speculative. It also indicated there were lots of reasons to believe that it just wasn't the case. "There is no evidence to suggest Bush ever had any intention to mislead." Tell that to Brown. Remember when he said that our administration was fitting the information to their conclusions?

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