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Originally Posted by aceventura3
And I would premise my argument to the American people by saying there is a "chance he has WMD...". I guess you would say I am a lier.
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ace...with such a premise ("there is a chance he had WMD") you would be more honorable and ethical than Bush, who made no such premise in any public statements.
Bush/Cheney et al not only made definitive declarations about WMDs, but also equally definitive statements about about Saddam-al queda connections in order to sell the invasion.
You might want to read a Congressional report,
Iraq on the Record, (pdf) which identifies 237 misleading statements about the threat posed by Saddam that were made by Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Powell, and Rice:
Bush:
* The Iraq regime has developed weapons of mass death
* We found the weapons of mass destruction
* The liberation of Iraq removed an ally of al Queda
Cheney:
* We know with absolute certainty ..to enrich uranium to build a nuclear weapon
* Saddam has an established relationship with al Queda
Bush continues to mislead through fear with the implied threat to the homeland posed by the loosely affiliated al Queda in Iraq.