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• Thursday, December 4, 2008 05:24 PM

  The Left's Big Lie

  Implausibly, the left continues to recycle its tribute to Joseph Goebbels, the monstrous and thoroughly debunked Big Lie that Bush, through some magic, knew that Saddam retained none of the WMD that had been catalogued by the U.N.

  Forget for a moment that the bipartisan Robb-Silvermann committee found that the Bush administration did NOT manipulate intelligence. Let's consider the most important historic event that, at least to the liars of the left, never happened: Operation Desert Fox, Bill Clinton's massive four-day air assault on Iraq back in 1998. Although Secretary of State Madeleine Albright stated that the Clinton administration "wasn't pretending that it could get everything," the goal was to degrade Iraq's capacity to produce WMD and reduce its existing stockpiles. During the futile search for WMD after Saddam's fall in 2003, Carville and Begala were all over the cable talk shows prattling that "maybe we got it all."

  The professional Bush-bashers must come clean at long last and tell us if Clinton knew that there were no WMD remaining in Iraq when Operation Desert Fox knocked Monica Lewinsky off the front pages. Those who are willing to throw Bubba under the bus to perpetuate their pernicious myth must then explain why the intelligence services of countries monitoring Iraq through 2002 (France, Russia, Germany, Jordan, Egypt, Israel, Italy, Great Britain, Turkey, China, etc.) ALL reached conclusions similar to American intelligence.

  Please explain how Bush and Cheney "manipulated" France's or Russia's findings. The alternative would be, of course, to confess to a vicious and baseless lie. The left often tells lies: it NEVER admits to its misdeeds.

  —pomeroo Read pomeroo's other letters
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