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Saturday, November 12, 2005

Best Summary of Iraq Lies I've Seen

Josh Marshall wrote one of the best summaries I've seen detailing the lies put out by the White Houses as we went into war with Iraq. For those that only hear the exaggerations of the extreme left, check out the real problems:
1. Longstanding effort to convince the American people that Iraq maintained ties to al Qaida and may have played a role in 9/11. This was always just a plain old lie...

2. Repeated efforts to jam purported evidence about an Iraqi nuclear weapons program (the Niger canard) into major presidential speeches despite the fact the CIA believed the claim was not credible and tried to prevent the president from doing so...

3. Consistent and longstanding effort to elide the distinction between chem-bio-weapons (which are terrible but no immediate threat to American security) and nuclear weapons (which are)...

4. The fact that the administration's push for war wasn't even about WMD in the first place...
History will judge this president very harshly. Will he really be judged the worst president ever? Perhaps not. Perhaps someone will beat him out. I don't know who, though.