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" Bush is very careful not to come out and blatantly lie, but I would characterize him as 'misleading' the public on WMD and terrorist connections to Saddam. In addition to misleading the public on the reasons for....I have to say it- invading Iraq -, Bush and his team were manipulating intelligence data from the CIA, Pentagon and State Department....they ignored details that hurt their case for war and exaggerated details that helped their case. Many of the details that helped their case turned out to be false....
Did Bush lie? I don't think you can say that exactly, but I do think you can now say that he led us into an unjust war against an enemy that was no real threat to its neighbors or the US. We now know that economic sanctions and the inspectors were both effective in limiting Saddam's ability to wage any kind of attack, and he was as isolated as Castro (who hasn't caused the US any real trouble in 40 years). There was not imminent threat, no need for pre-emptive war. Bush mislead us, the whole world, and it reminds me of the fairy tale about 'crying wolf'....next time there may be a real danger out there and the world won't listen because we were all mislead about this wolf.
And when you get right down to it, isn't being mislead on the Iraq invasion worse than a bold-faced lie about a BJ? "