Wednesday, April 30, 2003

You Don't Say

From ABCNews.com: Washington, April 25 ó To build its case for war with Iraq, the Bush administration argued that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, but some officials now privately acknowledge the White House had another reason for war ó a global show of American power and democracy. [read more...]

I like this part:
Officials inside government and advisers outside told ABCNEWS the administration emphasized the danger of Saddam's weapons to gain the legal justification for war from the United Nations and to stress the danger at home to Americans.

"We were not lying," said one official. "But it was just a matter of emphasis."


I suppose that's so. Emphasize the misleading information; de-emphasize the truth.

So here's a report from ABCNews that essentially says the Bush administration misled the American people and the rest of the world with respect to the real reasons for launching a war in Iraq. That they actually hadógasp!óanother agenda.

Fallout=0.

Ah yes, the power of the liberal media.

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