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March 15, 2004 It's gonna be a fun campaign, Pt 4 Today the Bush administration’s talkers did nothing to explain the glaring lack of credibility Bush has on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. When making the case for war, his administration clearly claimed they had evidence it was an “immediate threat,” and had “reconstituted nuclear weapons,” even though now intelligence officers are saying there was no evidence.(sigh) We've been through all of this before, so I'm sure I'm preaching to the choir. We all know Bush specifically stated that "some have said we must not act until the threat is imminent" and "all actions, all words, and all recriminations would come too late" if we waited for that threat to emerge. But the Kerry blog manages to dig up press conferences where Ari Fleischer says "absolutely" in response to a question that contained the word "imminent"....and we all know that administration policy can best be determined by a single statement from Ari Fleischer during an obscure press conference. The actual statements by the President are....well, superfluous. More bothersome to me is the "reconstituted nuclear weapons" canard. In this, Kerry can only be described as wildly deceptive. They are either aware of the context and intentionally misleading, or they're doing their research at democratic-echochamber.com. A perfunctory glance at the transcript will clear this up....cheney was asked about a nuclear weapons program, and his references were consistently on that point. At one point, he slipped and left the word "program" out. His context, however, was so clear that even Russert didn't note it. Almost one year later, though, John Kerry goes where even the barely literate know not to tread. And he has the gall to claim the Bush administration is "misrepresenting Kerry's record". Charming. |