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6/13/2003 08:07:00 PM | Timothy

Bush: "we found the weapons of mass destruction." (Can I say he's lying?)
Bush falsely claims "we found the weapons of mass destruction" (6/1) By Ben Fritz
In response to increased criticism that the United States government has so far not found any evidence to support its repeated assertions that there were banned biological, chemical, and/or nuclear weapons in Iraq, President Bush's is now claiming that "we found the weapons of mass destruction." This statement is flat out false according to the evidence presented by his own administration, however. So far, the U.S. has only found evidence of weapons labs that likely could have been used to create biological weapons, but has found no actual weapons banned by the United Nations....
The existence of the labs is an important but separate issue. In the midst of a debate about whether the U.S. government misled the public and other governments over its reasons for invading Iraq, the President is now making a patently false claim about evidence of the existence of weapons of mass destruction. (from spinsanity)

See also this Washington Post article and Paul "Shrill to Shrub" Krugman. If Dartmouth Reviewer Stefan Beck won't say "Bush lied," maybe he will agree with Spinsanity that "the President is now making a patently false claim." I'll trust his intellectual honesty to either admit at least that, or show otherwise.

Also: Bryan Keefer on Spinsanity has another post on the "Bush administration's record of factual misstatements and distortions" and also on "the administration's - and especially President Bush's - history of strategically ambiguous statements that, while technically or arguably true, imply connections between two things which he cannot directly demonstrate." Spinsanity claims to be "countering rhetoric with reason" and does not say "Bush lies." But pardon me if I have good reason not to trust the honesty of Bush, Ari Fleischer or any of his administration hacks.

Update: Ari has a worse-than-Clinton parsing, claiming that when the President says weapons, he means weapons programs: "When he said 'weapons programs,' he includes weapons of mass destruction, as you heard him say on numerous occasions." Pathetic. Jake Tapper writes:
When President George W. Bush says "cow," does he really mean "milk"? Does he use the terms "light bulb factory" and "light bulb" interchangeably?...
On Fox News Sunday, William Kristol, editor of the conservative Weekly Standard, said that "people like me, who were hawks, said the war was both just, prudent and urgent." The war, in Kristol's estimation, was still just and prudent. "But it is fair to say that if we don't find serious weapons of mass destruction capabilities, the case for urgency, which Bush and [British Prime Minister Tony] Blair certainly articulated, is going to be undercut to some degree." That, of course, depends on what your definition of "WMD" is.
But the Bush Administration can't really be that dishonest if it didn't actually falsely plant the weapons, right Mr. Beck?



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