CodeBorg wrote:Still, President Bush insisted Monday that Baghdad had a program to make weapons of mass destruction. "Intelligence throughout the decade shows they had a weapons program. I am absolutely convinced that with time, we'll find out they did have a weapons program," he said.
Notice how he has now revised his lie.
They can call a boiler at a bakery or a centrifuge at a university a 'weapons program' with this new phrase.
At this point I have come to the realization
that it does not matter whether we find WMD's or not.
The point is that the Bush administration flagrantly overstated the case based on the evidence available to them for political reasons. If they find WMDs now it'll be because a) they planted them or b) they got lucky.
The main thing to remember is that the claims that Bush et al.
made about what they KNEW Saddam Hussein had were
false--and that the intelligence that was guiding the search for WMDs after the invasion has turned out to be a load of horseshit.
For instance, if Bush were to get up in a SOTU address and say, "I
KNOW that PDiddie hates my sorry ass," but then the intelligence community says, "Dude, we told you in that huge classified report we prepared that there is
NO evidence whatsoever that the PDiddie hates your sorry ass, but you wouldn't listen to us, oh no, you would only listen to the four horsemen of the PNAC who made up that totally bogus article called 'How Do I Hate Dubya's Sorry Ass: Let Me Count The Ways' that you went around quoting," then Dubya was telling a flat-assed
LIE (even though I
do in fact hate his sorry ass pretty bad).
I don't believe they'll find WMDs now, unless they plant them. But at any rate, the point is that Bush et al.
could not support the truth of the claims they were making based on the available intelligence.
And they knew that.
And so did we, and so did the rest of the world.