Did Bush Mislead Us into War?

[joemurphy]

Today Bush threw down the gauntlet -- in advance of the upcoming Senate hearings on the uses his Administration put to Iraq intelligence -- by denying he mislead the country and claiming that Congress saw the same intelligence he did.

My guess is that what we are going to see from the Republicans is the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq.

Declassified excerpts from the NIE-- what I think the Republicans are going to rely on -- are available at this website:

<http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2003_cr/h072103.html>

It is a very short read. I'd urge anyone interested in formulating arguments on the matter to take a look. It's pretty dismal reading.

If Tenet was behind this, he should give his American Medal of Freedom back and seriously consider seppuku.

But even considering what is in the NIE, many of the statements of Bush, Cheney, Rice and Powell were way over the top and definitely misleading.

I'd be interested in hearing what people think on this.

[Burried News]

1. Three years ago 38% thought Bush lied us into war. Today

over 60% do. Along the way 20% of our people changed their mind. Something like 40 million people have changed their mind.

Despite radio, television and newspaper collusion (for want of a better word) 40 million people now think they were lied to. They have had to admit they were wrong. People who trusted the country's leadership to do the right thing, have slowly and reluctantly changed their mind.

If this President thinks that he can now get them to return to the bossom of his Satanic lies he is truly the antichrist or the nearest thing to it that I have ever seen in my lifetime.

BUT I don't think he is the antichrist. I don't think the people will turn again and I think he has created the conditions that will now lead to his impeachment. A LOOooong overdue IMPEACHMENT. An impeachment that must be pursued for the sanity of the nation.