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UpInArms Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 07:23 AM
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Bush needs to accept responsibility
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~193~1531289,00.html

It was an astonishing sight. One of the world's most powerful leaders, flanked by the world's most powerful leader, insisting discredited intelligence information was either valid or good enough. Prime Minister Tony Blair of Great Britain said boldly that he stood behind the fake documents linking Iraq with attempts to obtain uranium from Niger. And President Bush avoided the question about his State of the Union speech citing same faulty information as justification for war with Iraq.

Both men continue to be under fire for overstating the rationale for invading Iraq. After having claimed for months that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and was an imminent threat to the United States, the president now says what an evil butcher Saddam Hussein is. When challenged on changing his reasoning for war, he accuses his critics of being "revisionist historians." In fact, it is the president who is revising this episode of history.

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4dsc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-27-03 09:44 AM
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1. the title is an oxymoron
to put bush and responsibility in the same sentence, is the ultimate oxymoron..

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