WTF Is It Now?!?

Followup
Doug Thompson, conservative and Capitol Hill Blue journalist, replies to critics of yesterday's CHB piece (see WTF??, 'Moral clarity', 7/8/03) and to the mouthbreathing pusbags at FreiRepublik:

I thought long and hard about both the lead of the story and the headline but [Terrance] Wilkinson's revelations sealed it for me. The President was told the information came from sources they had determined were not credible and he chose to use it anyway. When you knowingly use incorrect information, that, to me, is lying.

I know the Bush supporters will try and parse this as anything but lying but the White House is gone into a frenzy of damage control over this. Bush was so sure the proof would be found in Iraq that he was willing to ignore the lack of evidence beforehand.

I had breakfast with a Republican member of Congress this morning and he said sentiment is growing on the GOP side of the Hill that the President has put the party in a difficult position by playing fast and loose with the facts on Iraq and again with his reckless statements that many agree have put troops in danger. John Warner said Sunday he wanted a vote on whether or not to send troops to Liberia and the White House ignored him. Warner is not someone you ignore.

I'm starting to believe that if Jesus himself came down from the heavens and declared George W. Bush a liar, some here would jump up and say Jesus is just a liberal Democrat with an anti-Bush agenda.

I'm not anti-Bush but I am pro-truth and right now the evidence points to a President who has not been honest with the American people. The admission Monday is a classic political ploy. Admit some culpability in the hopes that it will stop further scrutiny. It won't.

I don't feed anyone's desire for a witch hunt. When we ran the stories about Bill Clinton's sexual assaults on women, we identified a number of the women and the stories were widely discussed here. I don't recall anyone at Free Republic demanding "proof" of their identity although I did have a number of liberal media types hounding me for more information. I didn't share additional information with them on Bill Clinton's victims and I won't to anyone else on Terry Wilkinson.

It has been said here that I hate George Bush. I don't. I do have problems with some of the actions of his administration and I feel he was wrong to use undocumented information to justify the war with Iraq -- a war that Capitol Hill Blue supported without hesitation in a strong editorial on our home page.

So blow me.


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