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Originally Posted by Boo
I guess that his little credibility got him reelected?
"He lied"..... I really wish that this would go away. If Bush lied about WMD, then so did Clinton and many others. Our intelligence community let us down (or were they lying?). Is it actually lying if you make a statement based on the information provided to you?
I do disagree with his policy of not holding people accountable.
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You think credibility got Bush reelected? Your sarcastic remark makes it seem as if it were obvious that Bush was elected on his credibility. That's absurd. Credibility means that he has earned and deserves our trust. WMDs and a link from al Qaeda to Iraq are reason enough to at the very least question what he says before believing it. If people don't understand that, they are simply ignorant to politics, which is what really won the election.
I don't remember saying that Clinton was honest. If you mislead someone, then you are corrected, but you feel no remorse for having led people the wrong way (leading to 100k Iraqi civilian deaths and thousands of American soldier deaths), that shows no character at all. Is it weak to admit when you have wronged people, dileberately or not? His dishonesty becomes aparent through his resolving to continue along the path of the misinformation. That makes it a lie.