Democrats are accusing President Bush of having misled the American public,do they think we have forgotton?

Question

Americans say Bush is not honest and they disapprove of his handling of foreign policy and the war on terrorism
Who is not honest?
December 16, 1998
The president said Iraq's refusal to cooperate with U.N. weapons inspectors presented a threat to the entire world.
"Saddam (Hussein) must not be allowed to threaten his neighbors or the world with nuclear arms, poison gas or biological weapons," Clinton said.
Commission's investigation had uncovered no "evidence indicating that Iraq cooperated with al Qaeda in developing or carrying out any attacks against the United States," and no evidence of any "collaborative operational relationship."
http://www.cnn.com/US/9812/16/clinton.iraq.speech/
Bill Clinton calls Iraq 'big mistake'
United States made a "big mistake" when it invaded Iraq, stoking the partisan debate back home over the war.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-11-16-iraq-clinton_x.htm

Democrats are accusing President Bush of having misled the American public about the urgency of the Iraqi threat before his order to invade, and Bush on Monday threw back at Democratic critics the worries they once expressed about Saddam.

"They spoke the truth then and they're speaking politics now," Bush charged.

Answer 1

There is a big difference between saying "Saddam must not be allowed to threaten ... with ..." and using manufactured evidence to justify a military invasion.

Look, this is not a democrat vs. republican issue at all. Just use some common sense and think about this:

Bush publicly justifies the war by showing multiple facts of "evidence" to prove WMD, terrorist connections, etc. Later, ALL of his assertions turn out to be false, "evidence" turns out to be fake, there are no WMD and no terrorist connections and no reason whatsoever to invade that country. So, what does George do? He says that the intelligence made a mistake! Are you really THAT GULLIBLE to believe that an administration operating in good faith and having vast intelligence capabilitites was unable to make sure that at least one of those "proofs" was not false? Forget about political parties and trying to put blame on Clinton. Do you really believe that a "mistake" of those proportions is possible? Just be honest to yourself and take stupid demagogory for what it's worth...

Answer 2

Well Bush was actually a Neo Con which makes him involved in the New World Order movement. Obama is now following in Bushes footsteps only difference is Bush set out to have America lead the NWO while Obama is bowing to his superiors in Communist China. So I guess Bush did a better Job. How about we get rid of the whole NWO concept all together and start helping ourselves and Great Britain only. This will happen when you vote for Mitt Romney in November.

Answer 3

You must have forgotten or had your head buried in the sand. Saddam let the UN weapons inspectors back into Iraq and then a few weeks later Bush told them to get out of Iraq because he was going to invade. Two days later Bush did in fact invade within hours of the last UN weapons inspector leaving the country.

Please stop trying to misinform the community.

Answer 4

You don't believe Bush lies or is stupid????

"For a century and a half now, America and Japan have formed one of the great and enduring alliances of modern times." George W. Bush ---Tokyo, Japan; February 18, 2002

What happened between December 1941 and August 1945? Wouldn't that be within the last 150 years? Is he lying again or just stupid?

Answer 5

There were mistakes on the parts of both parties...but Bush put us in Iraq...and now it has snowballed into our country being billions of dollars in debt and we cannot get out of this war

Answer 6

This is a little play I wrote, just now....

Scene: George W. Bush, alone in the middle of a stage, standing behind a podium. In the audience sits the American public.


GW: "My people, we must invade Iraq. They have weapons of mass destruction."
The Public: "No, they didn't."
GW: "My people, we must invade Iraq. They conspired with Al-Qaeda to attack us on 9/11."
TP (all except FOX News viewers): "No, they didn't."
GW: "My people, we must invade Iraq. Saddam Hussein must be stopped."
TP: "And we have done so. Why are we still there?"
GW: "My people, we must stay in Iraq. We must sow the seeds of democracy."
TP: "And we have done so. Why are we still there?"
GW: "My people, we must stay in Iraq. We must stay because withdrawing sends the wrong message to the terrorists. 9/11! Boo!"
TP: "No, it sends the message that we achieved what you said we wanted to do and now we're done."
GW: "My people, we must stay in Iraq so that those I have sent to their deaths will not have died in vain."
TP: "2008."


I call it "Moving the Goalposts".

Answer 7

Evidently!

Answer 8

Mislead? Hmm. The WTC getting taken out seemed pretty real to me.

Answer 9

While President Bush may have been wrong, in your opinion, he made a decision and stuck with it. The liberals, and a few Republicans, move which ever way the wind is blowing. Who has more integrity?

Answer 10

Of course they are. They have to deflect attention from themselves for voting for it too.
How long will it be before Teddy and Hillary blame Bush for their Pro-Amnesty votes?
I can hear it. "Bush shoved it down our throats. He lied to us. He doctored CIA reports on the Illegal Immigrants. He fed us lies. He played on our fears. Even though I did my own Independant research from my own trusted sources, it's still Bush's fault" and the old favorite "I voted for it before I voted against it, even though I never actually voted against it".....
And you folks will buy that too..............