For the rest our lives there is no doubt in my mind we will hear
how Al Gore beat George W. Bush in Florida and should have been the 43rd
President of the United States and how “Bush lied us into a war with Iraq”. Both
things are not true and those who think they can prove otherwise might try to
sell some everglade property in their sales pitch.
Please find below a short article that has an abbreviated rebuttal
of such nonsense:
The Dangerous Lie That
‘Bush Lied’
Reposted article by Laurence H. Silberman
Some
journalists still peddle this canard as if it were fact. This is defamatory and
could end up hurting the country.
In
recent weeks, I have heard former Associated Press reporter Ron Fournier on Fox
News twice asserting, quite offhandedly, that President George W. Bush “lied us into war in Iraq
I found this shocking. I
took a leave of absence from the bench in 2004-05 to serve as co-chairman of
the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding
Weapons of Mass Destruction—a bipartisan body, sometimes referred to as the
Robb-Silberman Commission. It was directed in 2004 to evaluate the intelligence
community’s determination that Saddam Hussein possessed WMD—I am, therefore,
keenly aware of both the intelligence provided to President Bush and his
reliance on that intelligence as his primary casus belli. It is
astonishing to see the “Bush lied” allegation evolve from antiwar slogan to
journalistic fact.
The intelligence
community’s 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) stated, in a formal
presentation to President Bush and to Congress, its view that Saddam had
weapons of mass destruction—a belief in which the NIE said it held a 90% level
of confidence. That is about as certain as the intelligence community gets on
any subject.
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