November 18, 2005

What the President Should be Saying

By J. Peter Mulhern
It's nice that the President is finally ridiculing the ridiculous charge that he lied us into war in Iraq.  I, for one, am grateful for any sign of political life from a White House that sometimes seems to have gone into a second term coma.  So far, however, the President has been content to pick some very low hanging rhetorical fruit.  He needs to hit the Democrats much harder and much more often.  So far the new offensive in the war of words consists mostly of pointing out the glaring contradiction that underlies the 'Bush lied, people died' disinformation campaign.  Every prominent Democrat politician had access to the same antebellum information about Saddam Hussein and reached the same conclusions about the danger of leaving him at large as did President Bush.  Most of them stated their conclusions about Saddam on videotape.  Assigning all the blame for a bipartisan mistake to George W. Bush is certainly unfair.  The unfounded claim that...(Read Full Article)