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Originally posted by lendaddy
Are you saying that Bush made this up from whole cloth? Or do you think it's likely that he was told this by one one of his advisors?
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I would expect that Bush's advisors are there to advise him on issues that they know more about than he does. I can't believe that an 'advisor' fabricated this misinformation & passed it along to him to spew out.
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Originally posted by lendaddy
Is it posssible that he confused the IAEA report with one from another agency?
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That would be a logical explanation. But the Whitehouse's response to criticism of Bush's statement isn't consistent with that theory. It was claimed that Bush was merely “imprecise” & left at that. No other report existed that reached those conclusions hence the Whitehouse was able to offer no defence.
Can it be proven that Bush knew that he was using an imaginary report to justify actions in Iraq? I guess not. If he asserted that he saw fairies living in his backyard then that could never be considered a lie either on those grounds. But the only alternative explanation is that he is terribly confused.
"I spent Christmas in Cambodia" is a lie under your definition?