WTF Is It Now?!?

A campaign of mass deception
Snipped from Bill Press's column:

It is time to tell the truth. The war in Iraq was based on a pack of lies.

Before you accuse me of being un-American, let me say right up front: I agree that the Iraqi people are better off without Saddam Hussein. I agree that President Bush could have made a case for war by telling us that Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator who was mistreating his own people and had to go.

But that's not the case President Bush made. Instead, he told us there were four main reasons we had to launch an immediate attack against Iraq: (1) Iraq had a large arsenal of weapons of mass destruction. (2) Iraq was close to developing nuclear weapons. (3) Saddam Hussein was connected to Osama bin Laden and, therefore, partly responsible for Sept. 11. (4) Iraq posed a serious, imminent threat to the United States.

For the last week, the media have been obsessed with the White House's admission that one element of the president's case, Iraq's attempt to buy uranium from Niger, was factually inaccurate. But by focusing on those 16 words in the State of the Union Address, they miss the big picture.

It's not just the uranium claim that doesn't hold up. Ten weeks after he declared "mission accomplished," not one of the president's four-point war plan is supported by the evidence. His entire case was bogus.


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