"No, I didn't!"
"Yes, you did!"
"Well, maybe I did, but I didn't mean it at the time because now I know I was misled and lied to!"
"Show me the lies."
"Well, you know, all that stuff about WMD's in Iraq. If I had known then what I know now ..."
"What do you know now?"
"Well, you know, that we were lied to."
"Very well. Show me the lies."
"Well, everyone knows that President Bush lied to us about the intelligence and ..."
"Ok. I heard you the first time. Specifically what information do you have that proves that the Congress and the nation were lied to."
Columnist Gene Lyons insists that the Bush Administration is attempting to rewrite history about what was actually known about the WMD's and Saddam Hussein's intentions in the world. Now that the nation has grown weary of the negative headlines from the war in Iraq, political opportunists have also jumped on the bandwagon to demand an immediate withdrawal or at least periodic reports from the Bush Administration about the state of the war. It would seem that now the Congress intends to run the war from the House.
President Bush has insisted that the Congress was privvy to the same information since he chose to share it while seeking congressional support for military action. The Democrats chose to support the president at the time. Why? Because the nation was reeling from 9/11, and the time was ripe for hawkishness. It was politically popular to speak of kicking some tail.
Now the Democrats are using the president's low approval ratings to kick him around a little more. Wild accusations about "lies" are flying high and low. The problem, however, is that the evidence which might implicate President Bush seems somewhat light.
If anyone is rewriting history here, it is those who will kick a man while he's down.
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Correct.
It's amazing that the Left has managed to brainwash itself into believing that Bush lied about the WMDs.
In today's paper (Sunday 11/20), it is reported that only one of Arkansas' congressional delegation voted "no" to authorize the use of force. Ironically, he is the only veteran. Pretty liberal man, but his integrity is solid. The others are still talking about their regrets, but they have yet to tell us what new information they think they have other than extensive press coverage of the very ugly nature of war. Honestly, I'm not even sure that I have the stomach for it.
If the invasion was a mistake, to withdraw now would be a mistake of monumental proportions but our senior senator seems willing to risk it on the premise that we can go back if necessary (??).
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