BUSH LIED......NOT!!!

Here is an editorial from the Chicago Tribune that everyone in America should read. Finally, a group of journalists has decided to weigh all the charges against the President about getting us into the war in Iraq against the evidence, and found that he really did not lie to the American people. They examine the NINE reasons the President gave for toppling Saddam Hussein by force and find that while mistakes were made, deliberate lies were not. Congratulations to the people at the Tribune for doing some good journalism.

After reassessing the administration's nine arguments for war, we do not see the conspiracy to mislead that many critics allege. Example: The accusation that Bush lied about Saddam Hussein's weapons programs overlooks years of global intelligence warnings that, by February 2003, had convinced even French President Jacques Chirac of "the probable possession of weapons of mass destruction by an uncontrollable country, Iraq." We also know that, as early as 1997, U.S. intel agencies began repeatedly warning the Clinton White House that Iraq, with fissile material from a foreign source, could have a crude nuclear bomb within a year.

Seventeen days before the war, this page reluctantly urged the president to launch it. We said that every earnest tool of diplomacy with Iraq had failed to improve the world's security, stop the butchery--or rationalize years of UN inaction. We contended that Saddam Hussein, not George W. Bush, had demanded this conflict.

Read the whole thing. I found this at Instapundit, a blog I recommend you visit regularly.