Here's a follow-up statement DIRECTLY FROM THE WHITE HOUSE: The President LIED about the evidence he cited to go to war. This wasn't a lie about a blow-job dealing with a private affair. Innocents by the thousands were slaughtered and maimed while millions have had their lives thrown into chaos and peril by calculated lying by Bush before the entire nation and the world in a State of the Union address. A nation's tragic fate was created by a lie. And it is tragic because it's only getting worse in Iraq day by day. Why was it okay to impeach Clinton over trying to hide a tawdy affair and yet now we have a leader who is caught in a whooper LIE with mountains of evidence building up by the minute?

Bush Claim on Iraq Had Flawed Origin, White House Says

(The evidence is mounting by the minute that the White House always knew it was "flawed" but Bush went ahead and lied about it anyway!)

By DAVID E. SANGER NY TIMES

WASHINGTON, July 7 — The White House acknowledged for the first time today that President Bush was relying on incomplete and perhaps inaccurate information from American intelligence agencies when he declared, in his State of the Union speech, that Saddam Hussein had tried to purchase uranium from Africa.





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