let me ask you something. was bill clinton lying to the american people everytime he gave a state of the union address and talked about how dangerous sadaam hussein was and how he was trying to get WMD's and how if he did clinton GUARANTEED that he would use them. i bet you havent ever considered this information because it never suited your argument. and i bet that you'll completely ignore this post and never give it another thought. people like you dont watch the news to gain knowledge or find information. people like you only watch the news to gather ammo for your foregone conclusions.
however if you think that clinton was also lying and this war in iraq was a conspiracy of both the right and the left i disagree with you, but i have a little more respect for your opinion.
Let me tell you something (we Americans are always 'telling you something")
Clinton's lies were likely based on the best evidence available, no?
Weren't Bush's statements based on the best evidence available? Read and find out:
October 7, 2002 Bush addressed the nation and said that Hussein was “a great danger to our nation”, either by using “unmanned aerial vehicles” with “chemical or biological” payloads “for missions targeting the US” or by providing these weapons to a “terrorist groups or individual terrorists to attack us.”
The day after the speech, George Tenet declassified a letter, signed by John McLaughlin, (deputy director of the CIA) which stated that Iraq was not an imminent threat to the security of the country and would not be unless the US attacked Iraq. That letter predated Bush’s speech by a matter of hours. Since the CIA is an agency of the Executive Branch and the director reports only to the president, it is unthinkable that Bush did not know the contents of the letter stating Iraq was no imminent threat to the US.
Also, the letter simply corroborated the same finding in the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate issued by the CIA to Bush on 10-1-2002. The CIA did not consider Hussein an imminent threat.
Bush said, “I’ll be making up my mind (to invade Iraq) based on the latest intelligence.”
When Bush told the nation on 10-7 that Hussein was an imminent threat to the security of the country, he was telling millions of Americans the exact opposite of what his own CIA was telling him. Bush had his minions repeat lies like these in Congressional Briefings.
On 10-4-2002, Bush issued a White Paper RESTATING the information in the 10-01-2002 NIE changing the language to make mere opinions into rock solid facts and to add words showing the US homeland was a target. That’s big-time deception.
Now bears, if the best evidence availabe clearly stated that Iraq was no threat to the US and Bush told the nation that Iraq was tremendous imminent threat to the US, would you characterize Bush's statement as a lie?
