Here's an undeniable lie:
In 2002-early 2003, Dick Cheney repeatly told the media "We have confirmed" and "We know for a fact" that Iraq had stickpiles of chemical weapons, etc.
If he had prefaced these comments with "We suspect," that would not have been dishonest, since there was reason to suspect these things. But if they really did did know it for a fact, it would have been a fact.
Apologists for Bush like to say "the intelligence said he had them." That is simplistic. Intelligence is often vague, misleading, contrradictory, and self-serving to the source that is providing it. It's the job of the intelligence people to sort it out.
The tragedy is that after the vote to authorize force (which was essentially a gun pointed at Saddam), he did allow weapons inspectors who had the ability to determine whether or not the WMD existed. They the inspectors didn;t find anything, Bush pushed for the invasion before the consesus could be reached that an invasion could not be justified. That's how I saw as t was happeniing, I don't understand how so few others did as well.
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