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President Bush yesterday passed up the opportunity to deliver a typical Veterans Day speech in favor of a ringing defense of the bipartisan decision made by Congress and the president to remove Saddam Hussein from power. And Mr. Bush specifically did something he should have been doing for the past two years - responding to the Bush critics and political opportunists of all stripes when they made the slanderous assertions that Mr. Bush "lied" about the existence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
Speaking to a gathering of veterans in Tobyhanna, Pa., the president noted that when he decided to oust Saddam, "more than 100 Democrats in the House and Senate, who had access to the same intelligence, voted to support removing Saddam Hussein from power." Mr. Bush also quoted Sen. John Kerry's explanation of his vote in favor of using force: "When I vote to give the president of the United States the authority to use force, if necessary, to disarm Saddam Hussein, it is because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hand is a threat and a grave threat to our national security."See the full content of this document
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A Belated Response to the Big Lie
Alluding to the fact that many in the current antiwar movement seek "to rewrite the history" of how the Iraq...
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