Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2004 7:57 PM To: Opinion Wisconsin State Journal Subject: Bush and lies Regarding Jonah Goldberg's column in the 01/21 WSJ. Goldberg seems to regard the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq as due to "intelligence blunders" and "mistaken" intelligence. Intelligence is information. What one does with that information should be subject to review because it is a judgment, not evidence. He further says, "It's not a lie unless you know the truth." Not quite true. If you know you don't know the truth but you pretend you do, that's a lie. Bush's claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and posed an imminent threat was based not on evidence but on a warping of limited intelligence to fit his program and attempt to convince America that it was the evidence he sought. That's a lie. Bush refused to submit his supposed evidence to a meaningful review. The resulting loss of 500 American soldiers forever is a profound tragedy for America.
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