See how they lie about the President

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At Betsy's Page she says:

If you haven't yet read Norman Podhoretz's column debunking the idea that George Bush lied us into war, head on over and read it this instant.

David Boyd provides a sample of Podhoretz's debunking:

But it is as close to certainty as we can get that Bush believed in the truth of what he was saying about WMD in Iraq.

How indeed could it have been otherwise? George Tenet, his own CIA director, assured him that the case was "a slam dunk." This phrase would later become notorious, but in using it, Tenet had the backing of all fifteen agencies involved in gathering intelligence for the United States. In the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) of 2002, where their collective views were summarized, one of the conclusions offered with "high confidence" was that:

Iraq is continuing, and in some areas expanding its chemical, biological, nuclear, and missile programs contrary to UN resolutions.

The intelligence agencies of Britain, Germany, Russia, China, Israel, and-yes-France all agreed with this judgment.

After you go to Podhoretz here, be sure to take another look at Betsy's Page and David Boyd.

Update: 11/14/2005

The morning Michelle Malkin posts: THE END OF THE "BUSH LIED" LIE. She notes Bush and others are attacking the lies told about the President and says "It's about damned time."
She links to others who offer plenty of facts to refute the "Bush lied" crowd.