By failing to find the WMD's, they allowed them to return to the hands of those wishing harm on the US forces. By not ferretting out these weapons, the reason we went into Iraq, was to SAVE us from these weapons, the Republicans lose if the weapons surface in the hands of "insurgents". The argument switches from "Bush lied" to Bush was incompetent from start to finish. Which if this story holds water, would be probably true.
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