If Bush lied about WMDs does that mean Hillary and the resot of the democrats are liars also?

Question

thay all said Iraq had WMDS...which have been found.

also , Russian and Syran troops moved the majority of WMDs into Syria....confirmed by Israeli and Turkish intelligence.

Answer 1

hhhhmmmmm, why don't you ask them?

here you go!

http://www.freedomagenda.com/iraq/wmd_quotes.html

Answer 2

All politicians are liars, of course, but the Democrats weren't the ones who presented the intelligence on WMD. The Bush administration did. The Democrats merely believed it.

If WMDs had been found, or if Russian/Syrian troops really had moved Iraq's WMDs into Syria, it seems to me that the Bush administration would be shouting it from the rooftops to show that the invasion of Iraq was justified. Instead, they changed their rationalization. What does that tell you?

People like you who either distort facts, or blindly follow others who distort facts, are not doing any good for anyone.

Answer 3

The famous “16 words” in President Bush’s Jan. 28, 2003 State of the Union address turn out to have a basis in fact after all, according to two recently released investigations in the US and Britain.

Bush said then, “The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa .” Some of his critics called that a lie, but the new evidence shows Bush had reason to say what he did.

A British intelligence review released July 14 calls Bush’s 16 words “well founded.”
A separate report by the US Senate Intelligence Committee said July 7 that the US also had similar information from “a number of intelligence reports,” a fact that was classified at the time Bush spoke.
Ironically, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who later called Bush’s 16 words a “lie”, supplied information that the Central Intelligence Agency took as confirmation that Iraq may indeed have been seeking uranium from Niger .
Both the US and British investigations make clear that some forged Italian documents, exposed as fakes soon after Bush spoke, were not the basis for the British intelligence Bush cited, or the CIA's conclusion that Iraq was trying to get uranium.
None of the new information suggests Iraq ever nailed down a deal to buy uranium, and the Senate report makes clear that US intelligence analysts have come to doubt whether Iraq was even trying to buy the stuff. In fact, both the White House and the CIA long ago conceded that the 16 words shouldn’t have been part of Bush’s speech.

But what he said – that Iraq sought uranium – is just what both British and US intelligence were telling him at the time. So Bush may indeed have been misinformed, but that's not the same as lying.

Of course Hillary is a liar, she learned it from her lover Bill "I did not have sex with that woman" Clintoon.

Answer 4

Don't forget it would also mean the UN lied, as well as Italy, Britain, France, and every other country in the world. It was the UN that unanimously passed resoltuion 1441 which said:

"Recognizing the threat Iraq's noncompliance with Council resolutions and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and long-range missiles poses to international peace and security"

Folks forget it wasn't just the United States intelligence who believed Iraq had WMD. The whole world and their intelligence community believed it. So if Bush lied, then the whole world lied.

The arguement in the UN wasn't whether or not Iraq had WMD. The arguement was what to do about it. Kinda like Iran and North Korea.

Answer 5

Yes, on your main question. Many Democrats were making these claims in the 90s, before Bush was elected, and after any possible US strike that could have destroyed even a portion of them.

Does anyone really believe Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld etc.actually believed they were NOT there? What was the plan to tell people when they weren't found?

I'm not sure what evidence there is about things being moved to Syria. I wish the Bush administration would be more aggressive in keeping us informed.

Answer 6

Absolutely. The Clintons and many others on both sides of the aisle were saying Iraq had WMDs before Bush even came on the scene.

Answer 7

Here's just a small list of what the Dems said back before Bush did something about it.

http://www.freedomagenda.com/iraq/wmd_quotes.html

Answer 8

Can you post an article about this, please. I would love to read it.

I have always believed there were WMDs.

Bush didn't lie. He used the same information that everyone else had.

Answer 9

No. It means that the entire country was gripped with shock, anger, sadness, etc. and President Bush assured us that what he was doing would help to find those who attacked and continue to threaten us. He lied, we believed.

Answer 10

Wow, a fact.

And I'm sure a democrat will come on here and deny something that is factual.

Answer 11

Do not supply the facts, there is no need for them in a liberal world.