Originally posted by Yeager
Our current president simply lied to the American People in order to start a war
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where is the evidence of this lie? Locate for me the definitive indisputable evidence that implicates anyone associated with lying to start a war with Iraq.
Prefer something that can be used as evidece of lying in court of law please.
Or are you just framing your response above to a "gut feeling" based on massive reams of political spin?
Thanks in advance.
Where is the evidence that he told the truth? Where are the WMDs? Where are the links to Al Quida (sp)?
Either the President was grossly misinformed by the people who work for him, or he lied to us outright.
Which is worse? I'd prefer that he lied, because it frightens me to the core of my being that the intelligence capabilities of our country (arguably the most powerful country the world has ever seen) is that incompetant.
To be frank, I think what has happened here is that several people who work for the current administration (not necessary Bush himself) really really really wanted to go to war in Iraq for a variety of reasons. So they tried to come up with ANY evidence at all to support their agenda and then used it to sell their plans to the American people (who ate it up with a spoon). Whether or not the "evidence" was actually correct or not was probably not scrutinized, since they WANTED it to be true.
Perhaps Bush didn't lie outright (he believed his statements to be at least partially true), but he didn't go out of his way to scrutinize the facts either.
I'm sorry, but when it comes to fighting a war, the "oops, we were wrong" excuse doesn't fly with me. They haven't even bothered to admit that they were wrong, either.
And no, I really
didn't believe that Iraq was developing WMD's or was harboring terrorists when the current administration said they were. Not that that makes me special or something. I just wasn't willing to take their word for it, and they failed to provide ANY reasonable evidence to back up their claims. At the same time, there were members of the Administration who have historically shown a desire to invade Iraq. So I just didn't buy it. My final reservation was due to the fact that NOBODY seemed willing to talk about what was going to happen AFTER the attack. It was obvious that we were going to win the initial confrontation, but nobody seemed to say anything about what the plan was once Saddam was deposed. And here we are, 3 years later, still there, with no clear goals and with no clear pullout planned.
So while I will conceed that perhaps he didn't lie about it, he sure as hell didn't tell the truth, did he?