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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
Well understand that no one can resonably draw any conclusion as we haven't seen the evidence of which you speak. Well Ty will draw the conclusions that Bush has lied and gotten us into a quagmire, but no one else will.
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It's purely anecdotal and so has limited value.
Whether or not Bush or Cheney spoke untruths is self-evident. It's just fun to see R's making the same kind of arguments they were deriding back in the "what is the definition of 'is'" era. Here are several quotes from back when Bush and Cheney were making the case for American's dying in an invasion of a foreign country:
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Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. -- Dick Cheney, August 26, 2002
Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons. -- George W. Bush, September 12, 2002
The president of the United States and the secretary of defense would not assert as plainly and bluntly as they have that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction if it was not true, and if they did not have a solid basis for saying it. -- Ari Fleischer December 6, 2002
We know for a fact that there are weapons there. -- Ari Fleischer January 9, 2003
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Here is yesterday, right after the administration for the first time indicated that a reason for going to war was to rectify abuses in the oil-for-food program:
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''The headlines all say `no weapons of mass destruction stockpiled in Baghdad.' We already knew that.'' -- Cheney
''Iraq did not have the weapons that our intelligence believed were there,'' Bush said.
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So tell us again why the earlier statements are not untrue or misleading?
And, tell us when Cheney and Bush knew there were no WMD and why they didn't tell us then?
