"The bad faith of Bush's current argument is staggering. He wants to say that the 'more than a hundred Democrats in the House and Senate' who 'voted to support removing Saddam Hussein from power' thereby gave up their right to question his use of intelligence forever after. But he does not want to acknowledge that he forced the war vote to take place under circumstances that guaranteed the minimum amount of reflection and debate, and that opened anyone who dared question his policies to charges, right before an election, that they were soft on Hussein.
By linking the war on terrorism to a partisan war against Democrats, Bush undercut his capacity to lead the nation in this fight. And by resorting to partisan attacks again last week, Bush only reminded us of the shameful circumstances in which the whole thing started."
In this great column, E.J. Dionne explains how what Bush did then was wrong, and his attacks now may be even worse.
It seems that only one person is re-writing history in this debate, and it is the President.
ReplyDeleteThe experts never said that Iraq and al Qaeda were connected, but Bush did. The experts also said that Iraq wasn't a nuclear threat, but Bush disagreed.
He lied us into war, and now he's trying to lie his way out of trouble.