In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
Kerry: Bush intentionally exaggerated case
CLEVELAND - Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the presumed Democratic nominee for president, accused President Bush on Tuesday of having knowingly exaggerated evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, saying the president made “colossal mistakes” before, during and after the war.
Kerry’s charge, the sharpest accusation he has lodged on the president’s conduct of the war, came a day after the Bush campaign, led by Vice President Dick Cheney, unleashed a major assault on Kerry’s military record and his opposition to the Vietnam War.
“We know that the president and the White House exaggerated material that they were given purposefully, even though they were told otherwise,” Kerry said in an interview on MSNBC-TV’s “Hardball.”
“We know they gave misinformation, and yet the president says he’s never made a mistake,” he said, referring to Bush’s statement during a news conference this month that he could not remember a major misstep he had made during his administration.
‘Because they could’
He accused Bush and his advisers of having gone to war in Iraq simply “because they could.”
“I think it comes down to this larger ideological, neocon concept of fundamental change in the region,” he said. But “they misjudged exactly what the reaction would be and what they could get away with.”
“I think the president has made some colossal mistakes," Kerry said, “not the least of which is taking our nation to war in a way that was rushed, that pushed our allies away from us, that is costing the American people billions of dollars more than it ought, that is putting our young soldiers at greater risk they they ought to be, without a plan to win the peace. And he broke his promise to go to war as a last resort.”
Kerry pointing out the obvious, in a era when the obvious often goes unreported (you know like "Bush is a idiot who thinks God is telling him to go to war when it is really just Cheney throwing his voice").
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