Bush did not lie, we now learn.
However, in some twisted act of self-mutilation, his government severely wounded itself and America by hiding the abundant evidence that would have silenced Bush’s and the USA’s loudest and harshest opponents and enemies
I disagree with the author's conclusion...there were numerous reports of WMD findings. Announcements were made. Announcements were buried. The author is suggesting that more announcements should have been made.
The MSM had already decided to go with the "Bush lied" meme. The Army could have found a nuke on a launch pad with the words "Nuke New York" painted on the missle in plain English and the MSM would have buried the finding. Freepers knew this.
Nothing. Nothing was going to silence Bush's critics.
This MSM author now faults Bush for not yelling louder about the finds. Why? To receive even more ridicule?
“This MSM author now faults Bush for not yelling louder about the finds.”
So you are saying that all the info was out there, already put by the Bush administration but the pres didn’t report it? That surely did happen, but I sort of thought that this guy is saying that for some reason the true amount wasn’t revealed to the press by the administration, as well as how many soldiers got hurt by dealing with them.
“Amid this wholesale meltdown of domestic and international public opinion, the Bush administration inexplicably and unforgivably yielded to the architects in Bush’s political operation and sat on this treasure trove of exculpatory evidence. In fact, Bush did not lie about WMDs. They really existed — and in enormous amounts. Moreover, they were sitting in the Iraqi desert, making U.S. GIs physically ill. (In yet another outrage, 17 soldiers reportedly were denied the medical attention or subsequent commendations that they deserved for handling these poisons. They also allegedly were told to clam up about what they saw.)
It is outrageous that the Pentagon and, apparently, Bush’s political team concealed proof that America’s chief casus belli actually existed. Instead, the howling hyenas of the Left were allowed to gnaw away at Bush’s political corpse.”
He isn’t denying that they released some of the what they found and the press then ignored it, he is saying the full scope of what they found was concealed by the administration for some reason, or at least what I am getting from it. I could be mistaken.
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