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Originally Posted by FoolThemAll
Evidence of a bald-faced lie from the president, please. It's really odd, the ratio of times I've seen this accusation to times it's been supported.
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Off the top of my head i could probably point to the claim that Iraq had attemped to purchase nuclear material from Africa. However this one is open to speculation due to the deniability and apparent "ignorance" of the president on this issue. Even though various agencies knew either that the information was worng or probably wrong they still signed off on it and it made it into the speach anyway. It is my belief that if you are going to mak a case to go to war, the evidence you produce had better be 100% undeniably TRUE beyond all reasonable doubt. The use of this HIGHLY suspect, if not blatantly false, information is distasteful to say the least.
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Also rather interesting that many on the left that agreed with the peacekeeping efforts in other areas of the world suddenly found liberation to be an insufficient justification when used by a republican president. But I suppose that's a bit of a tangent.
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There is a difference between a peace-keeping force and an invasion/occupation of an entire country and complete removal of it's government.