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by the way, probably a bad example on WMD's. I know the line was "Bush lied," but that was silly. Virtually everyone thought Iraq had WMD. I still opposed the intervention as bad strategy/foreign policy, not because someone was "lying." Bush may have been wrong about WMD's but he wasn't lying on that one.

The thought or allegation is that Bush knew more than he disclosed and therefore those that supported him, like Clinton, only did so based on the limited knowledge they were given by the Bush administration. In other words, they manipulated or withheld evidence to sway opinion and therefore lied.

I think Iraq was a colossal and unforgivable mistake on W's part, but I am not sure he knowingly withheld information to justify the war. Cheney on the other hand could have easily withheld evidence from Bush and Congress...that would not surprise me in the least.

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Posted by ironsides

Nashville, TN

Member since May 2006

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Posted on 2/5/14 at 10:22 am to DeltaDoc

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I think Iraq was a colossal and unforgivable mistake on W's part, but I am not sure he knowingly withheld information to justify the war. Cheney on the other hand could have easily withheld evidence from Bush and Congress...that would not surprise me in the least.

Bush: He should have fact-checked Cheney
Clinton: You guys think lying about a BJ was his only transgression? Financial Services Modernization Act

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Removal of barriers to competition will enhance the stability of our financial services system.

(cough TARP, Housing Crisis, cough cough) This act made the financial system rediculously more risky and enabled banks to become TBTF. Without this we wouldn't have needed TARP because investment houses would be seperate from consumer banks. But I digress......

And Obama, was there a more disingenuous President?

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