Originally Posted By: whomod
 Quote:
AP
Study: False statements preceded war



VIDEO: Bill Buzenberg, the executive director of the Center for Public Integrity, interviews former Representative Lee H. Hamilton, who co-chaired the 9/11 Commission.


 Quote:
San Francisco Chronicle

Hundreds of lies[/u] led to war, study says[/stand]


Why you posted two links for the exact same article, I can't understand.

I read the first in its entirety, and then watched the YouTube clip of Lee Hamilton.


And once again, you make claims and falsely present articles as if they support your assertion that "BUSH LIED".

Well, the articles more accurately say: BUSH and his administation officials presented INACCURATE INFORMATION.
But that's not nearly the same thing as "Bush LIED".

Hamilton, in the clip, says that the information at the time later turned out to be innaccurate, yes.
But wasn't necessarily "a lie".

What Hamilton also says (and you partisanly gloss over) is that the news media and Congress didn't do their job, and they had a responsibility to investigate Bush's assertion of Iraq's threat, and that Congress had the same information and intelligence as the President, but still rubber-stamped it.

I think we can agree mistakes were made. And again, I didn't vote for Bush in 2000, and he was never someone I eagerly aligned myself with, or particularly admired. But at the same time, I don't like seeing him slandered beyond what he actually did, calling him a liar.
He may have lied, but I haven't seen solid evidence of that, to the point that I'd call him a liar. Just that he presented inaccurate information.

And again, I'd rather have a President who errs on the side of defending the nation, than a president who sits by and oh, say, lets the Chinese get ICBM technology to build and aim nuclear missiles at the United States.