Listening to the Clinton's, Kerry and most other Democrats about the threat of weapon's of mass destruction in Iraq. Why do Democrats insist on forgetting that historical reality?
Sure they changed their minds to undermine the U.S. soldiers still fighting and use them as pawns to win an election but that doesn't change their initial opinions and votes.
Study: Bush, aides made 935 false statements in run-up to war
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush and his top aides publicly made 935 false statements about the security risk posed by Iraq in the two years following September 11, 2001, according to a study released Tuesday by two nonprofit journalism groups.
"In short, the Bush administration led the nation to war on the basis of erroneous information that it methodically propagated and that culminated in military action against Iraq on March 19, 2003"
Study: Bush, aides made 935 false statements in run-up to war - CNN.com
Bush Sought 'Way' To Invade Iraq
Paul O'Neill, George Bush's Treasury Secretary
And what happened at President Bush's very first National Security Council meeting is one of O'Neill's most startling revelations.
"From the very beginning, there was a conviction, that Saddam Hussein was a bad person and that he needed to go," says O'Neill, who adds that going after Saddam was topic "A" 10 days after the inauguration - eight months before Sept. 11.
"From the very first instance, it was about Iraq. It was about what we can do to change this regime," says Suskind. "Day one, these things were laid and sealed."
During the campaign, candidate Bush had criticized the Clinton-Gore Administration for being too interventionist: "If we don't stop extending our troops all around the world in nation-building missions, then we're going to have a serious problem coming down the road. And I'm going to prevent that."
"The thing that's most surprising, I think, is how emphatically, from the very first, the administration had said 'X' during the campaign, but from the first day was often doing 'Y, "Not just saying 'Y,' but actively moving toward the opposite of what they had said during the election."
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