Analysis: Bush War Reasoning Takes a Hit

[GreenPartyVoter]

WASHINGTON (AP) - Already in question, President Bush's justification for war in Iraq has suffered another major setback.

An independent commission threw cold water Wednesday on the administration's insistent claims of a link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida. That comes on top of the administration's failure to find any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Both ideas had been central ingredients of Bush's rationale for invading.

The latest findings, less than five months before the U.S. presidential election, raised fresh questions about Bush's decision to invade Iraq and gave Democrats an opportunity to exploit an issue that already had become a political liability for the White House.

"The administration misled America and the administration reached too far," Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry said. "They did not tell the truth to Americans about what was happening or their intentions."

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20040617/D838GH1G0.html

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. Yes. The new and improved version

is "Well, we know that Saddam had ties to terrorists."

[NewYorkerfromMass]

2. Bush is toast

his self dug hole gets deeper by the day.