If George Bush were dishonest, the Weapons of Mass Destruction would have been “found” a long time ago.
Exactly.
The point here is not to argue whether there were WMD and al Queda connections.
The writer is using “false statements” in a Clintonian fashion. Is a statement false if you believed it at the time?
For instance, I constantly reassure my sister in law that my brother loves her and her insecure suspicions are unfounded. Then he leaves her for another woman.
Did I “lie” to her? Under the careful word-craft in this study, indeed I did!
Republicans would do better to fight that canard than to accommodate Dems in another debate over WMD’s.