"Misled" is an awfully kind word for what bush has done.

[Philosoraptor]

http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/457557p-385014c.html

White House counselor Dan Bartlett hit the Sunday talk-show circuit to challenge the key contention in Bob Woodward's bombshell new book, "State of Denial," that President Bush and his advisers have been misleading the country about Iraq.

"The evidence in the book ... contradicts his very thesis of denial," Bartlett said on CNN's "Late Edition."

"Throughout this book, throughout many of the President's public speeches, he's been very blunt with the American people about the difficulty of this war," Bartlett said.

In the book, Woodward writes that: The administration got bleak reports about worsening violence in Iraq but gave the public a rosy picture; that Secretary of State Rice blew off requests to kill Osama Bin Laden before 9/11 when she was national security adviser, and that even though Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld bungled the war, he survived internal White House calls for his head.

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So, bush was "misleading" us all about the war, that's too kind of a word for what he's done. When a leader misleads, he is a shitty leader or no leader at all, especially if he misled us into a war.

Lied is a more descriptive and less rosy word, and lying about war is much more than merely misleading.

You weren't lied to America, you were merely misled.

[Solly Mack]

1. misled for lies & mistakes for crimes

seeing either of the words "misled" or "mistakes" in conjunction with someone mentioning Iraq causes me to snarl. Just a pack of liars lying about the lies.

Crimes were (are) committed in Iraq. Lets call them what they are...
Lies were (are) told about Iraq. Lets call them what they are...

Anything less is legitimizing the lies and protecting the liars and the criminals

[Philosoraptor]

2. the word does not soften the suffering

of all those thousands of people and our twenty thousands crippled soldiers and the twenty seven hundred dead ones.

[Solly Mack]

4. Calling it what it really is wouldn't do that either - but-

but at least calling it what it really is would be honest...and would help in going after those criminally responsible

and the people already dead and those that will die from the lies deserve that much...at the very least

[Jack Rabbit]

3. Let's face it . . .

HE LIED

[rock]

5. Everything but liar

Misled, misinformed, misspoke, misunderestimated, "state of denial", incorrect, bad intelligence, in error... The list is limitless. But no "liar".

[Donald Ian Rankin]

6. If he'd just said "There are WMD in Iraq"

then it could, at a very generous interpretation, have been taken to be an honest mistake.

What he actually said, "I have proof that there are WMD in Iraq, which I'm not going to show you" *must* have been a conscious and deliberate lie.

So must "we have not yet committed ourselves to going to war".

[Philosoraptor]

7. tony snow: its an outrage to even suggest that