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Bitchfest....unfortunately
Did Bush lie about the intelligence he used to make the case for war against Iraq? Were the Democratic Senators duped into voting to authorize the use of force... many of them in both 2002 and 1998? This is a pretty commonly held position, on TFP and elsewhere. It also doesn't make any sense.
The number of intelligence agencies reporting the same information as the CIA is staggering, thus rendering the national intelligence conspiracy into an even more moonbat global conspiracy in which even France and Germany were helping to confuse the Senate into authorizing the war. In addition to being historical revisionism at its most sinister, the "Bush lied" argument is also so implausable as to be impossible.
I happened upon this Christopher Hitchens ( hardly a Republican) article in which the "Bush lied" theory is thoroughly debunked. It is difficult, after having read it, to understand why so many otherwise credible liberals have been duped into supporting an argument that is so obviously untrue.
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Originally Posted by Christopher Hitchens
We can now certify Iraq as disarmed, even if the materials once declared by the Saddam regime and never accounted for have still not been found. Why does this certified disarmament upset people so much? Would they rather have given Saddam the benefit of the doubt? Much more infuriating about the current anti-Chalabi hysteria is this: He turns up in Washington with a large delegation of Iraqi democrats, including a female Shiite ex-Communist, several Sunni dignitaries from the "hot" provinces, and the legendary Abdul Karim al-Muhammadawi, who led a genuine insurgency among the Marsh Arabs for 18 years. And the American left mounts a gargoyle picket line outside and asks silly and insulting questions inside, about a question that has already been decided. What a travesty this is. Not only do the liberal Democrats apparently want their own congressional votes from 1998 and 2002 back. It sometimes seems that they are actually nostalgic for the same period, when Saddam Hussein was running Iraq, and there were no coalition soldiers to challenge his rule, and when therefore by definition there was peace, and thus things were more or less OK. Their current claim to have been fooled or deceived makes them out, on their own account, to be highly dumb and gullible. But as dumb and gullible as that?
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