re: #1042 NJDhockeyfan

What about all the Democrats who said Saddam was making WMDs? Did George Bush force them to say those things?

Here’s how it worked:

Bush to Congress: “Saddam is making WMD’s! I know it, but the details are classified. Trust me!”
Congress: “OK.”

Bush to the United Nations: “Saddam is making WMD’s! I know it, but the details are classified. Trust me!”
The United Nations: “OK.”

Bush to our allies: “Saddam is making WMD’s! I know it, but the details are classified. Trust me!”
Our allies: “OK.”

Bush to the American people: “Saddam is making WMD’s! I know it, but the details are classified. Trust me!”
The American people: “OK.”

When we point fingers at that guy for lying, you hardly get to point fingers at all the people he lied to as if that somehow makes it even.

But go ahead and gimme some quotes, if you want to push the meme that it was Congressional Democrats who were claiming special knowledge of a WMD program beyond “the Bush administration told me and I trust them.”

Hell, even I believed him at the time. It was inconceivable to me that any President would lie about something like that. Nixon wouldn’t have lied about something like that! So when he gave us that alarming information, I just assumed that he had secret spy photos of WMD sites that he couldn’t make public or else Saddam would be able to use those images to figure out what spy must have taken those photos. Hell, that’s what I told people must have been the case. Something like that.

Nope. It was all a bunch of lies.

But he was my President and no President of the United States would lie about something that important, so I believed him. Does that make it my fault too?