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Friday, March 31, 2006 12:00 AM

"Saddam chose to deny inspectors"

Bush repeated this bald-faced lie recently. The cowering press still lets him get away with it, but the public is no longer fooled.
By Joe Conason

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  • Friday, March 31, 2006 10:51 AM

    Bush Apologists

    Anyone who starts quibbling about what "deny" meant is making excuses.

    It's very clear from everything this administration has done and said that the President was not parsing words, he was sending a message to the American people: Saddam wouldn't let inspectors into his country to do inspections for WMD. Plain and simple.

    That's how most people would have heard what he said, and that's the interpretation he wanted: the broadest, most categorical one. When it came to making war and making up reasons for it afterwards, this administration painted only in the broadest strokes.

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