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Showing Original Post only (View all)KRUGMAN: "Bush lied us into war. Let’s repeat that: he lied us into war." [View all]
Even more important, Bush lied us into war. Lets repeat that: he lied us into war. I know, the apologists will say that everyone believed Saddam had WMD, but the truth is that even the category WMD was a con game, lumping together chemical weapons with nukes in an illegitimate way. And any appearance of an intelligence consensus before the invasion was manufactured: dissenting voices were suppressed, as anyone who was reading Knight-Ridder (now McClatchy) knew at the time.
Why did the Bush administration want war? There probably wasnt a single reason, but can we really doubt at this point that it was in part about wagging the dog? And right there you have something that should block Bush from redemption of any kind, ever: he misled us into a war that probably killed hundreds of thousands of people, and he did it in part for political reasons.
There was a time when Americans expected their leaders to be more or less truthful. Nobody expected them to be saints, but we thought we could trust them not to lie about fundamental matters. That time is now behind us and it was Bush who did it.
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/27/the-great-degrader/