6/13/2003 08:07:00 PM | Timothy Bush: "we found the weapons of mass destruction." (Can I say he's lying?) Bush falsely claims "we found the weapons of mass destruction" (6/1) By Ben Fritz See also this Washington Post article and Paul "Shrill to Shrub" Krugman. If Dartmouth Reviewer Stefan Beck won't say "Bush lied," maybe he will agree with Spinsanity that "the President is now making a patently false claim." I'll trust his intellectual honesty to either admit at least that, or show otherwise. Also: Bryan Keefer on Spinsanity has another post on the "Bush administration's record of factual misstatements and distortions" and also on "the administration's - and especially President Bush's - history of strategically ambiguous statements that, while technically or arguably true, imply connections between two things which he cannot directly demonstrate." Spinsanity claims to be "countering rhetoric with reason" and does not say "Bush lies." But pardon me if I have good reason not to trust the honesty of Bush, Ari Fleischer or any of his administration hacks. Update: Ari has a worse-than-Clinton parsing, claiming that when the President says weapons, he means weapons programs: "When he said 'weapons programs,' he includes weapons of mass destruction, as you heard him say on numerous occasions." Pathetic. Jake Tapper writes: When President George W. Bush says "cow," does he really mean "milk"? Does he use the terms "light bulb factory" and "light bulb" interchangeably?...But the Bush Administration can't really be that dishonest if it didn't actually falsely plant the weapons, right Mr. Beck? perma link |
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