UrbanPancake said:
But Bush lied about those. Too bad. He shouldn't have lied to the American Public and sent our young men and women to be killed and beheaded in Iraq.
You may have noticed that most of the beheadings have been civilians, and not even necessarily Americans. No one SENT them there.
But I love the whole "Bush Lied" crap. So *BUSH* lied. But in the following:
Oct 9, 2002: "I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force-- if necessary-- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security."
Oct 9, 2002: "The threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real, but as I said, it is not new. It has been with us since the end of that war, and particularly in the last 4 years we know after Operation Desert Fox failed to force him to reaccept them, that he has continued to build those weapons. He has had a free hand for 4 years to reconstitute these weapons, allowing the world, during the interval, to lose the focus we had on weapons of mass destruction and the issue of proliferation."
Oct 9, 2002: The Iraqi regime's record over the decade leaves little doubt that Saddam Hussein wants to retain his arsenal of weapons of mass destruction and to expand it to include nuclear weapons. We cannot allow him to prevail in that quest.
Oct 9, 2002: "Regime change has been an American policy under the Clinton administration, and it is the current policy. I support the policy. But regime change in and of itself is not sufficient justification for going to war--particularly unilaterally--unless regime change is the only way to disarm Iraq of the weapons of mass destruction pursuant to the United Nations resolution."
Jan 23, 2003: "Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime ... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction ... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real..."
.............somehow, Kerry did NOT lie.
Here's the plain, honest truth. The very intel the President had was the SAME intel that Kerry saw. They both drew the SAME conclusion, and Kerry voted FOR it. So how is it that BUSH misled, but Kerry did not? They told the same story.
Now if somehow, Bush DUPED Kerry - then, Kerry's simply stupid.
If Kerry saw it and believed and commented on it - then Kerry's just a liar.
If Kerry didn't see it but said he did, and relied on staff to read it FOR him - then he's a liar AND stupid.
Sorry - the "Bush lied" argument is the flimsiest story out there.