--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Notice the dates on each of these press conferences, well after > the invasion.
<duh> Everybody knew the UN had been in Iraq looking for WMDs. Also, > everybody knew Saddam had expelled inspectors before and eventually > let them back in. Also obviously, everybody knew Bush pulled out > the inspectors before the hostilities began. So the context in > which Bush was saying "they wouldn't let inspectors in" was, they > wouldn't let inspectors in unfettered to do their jobs or without > trying to interfere. The big complaint at the time was the shell > game Saddam was trying to play or give the appearance of playing. > So it is easy to call Bush a liar in this instance if you take his > comments out of context. The comments were not taken out of context. Even Bush is smart enough to say "He wouldn't let the inspectors do their jobs" instead of "He wouldn't let the inspectors in" if that's what he wanted people to understand. And it wasn't just a slip of the tongue; he said it *at least three times*, at formal White House press conferences, no less. It isn't just me and Joe Conason. Even the Washington Post remarked on Bush's misstatement: "The president's assertion that the war began because Iraq did not admit inspectors appeared to contradict the events leading up to war this spring: Hussein had, in fact, admitted the inspectors and Bush had opposed extending their work because he did not believe them effective." And again, according to Blix--the man who was there-- the inspectors were *not* having any trouble getting access to the sites they wanted to see. It was the Bush administration that was trying to sabotage their work, not Saddam. Sorry, but you just can't spin Bush out of this one. > One thing Bush's political enemies constantly criticize him about are his > communication skills and obviously the lack of clarification in his comments > opened him up to attack, calling him a liar. But I think anybody with half a > brain that has kept up with the conflict and is not a Bush hater knows exactly > what was meant in those press conference statements. > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Yahoo! Groups gets a make over. See the new email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/XISQkA/lOaOAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
