Bush changed something that is an opinion into a fact - Clinton didn't

[papau]

Bush changed something that is an opinion into a fact - Clinton didn't - is the "wrong story line - not approve by ROVE/GOP - so US media not allowed to report it,

So the public will understand only if the above "changed something that is an opinion into a fact" is repeated over and over in the speeches of the 9. So why are today's speeches not modified to include that phrase?


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=306228

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/politics/politics-iraq-usa-weapons.html

Questions About Iraq Weapons Haunt U.S. Election Year
By REUTERS


Filed at 0:46 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The failure to find Iraqi weapons of mass destruction looks set to dog the Bush administration in an election year amid persistent accusations it exaggerated evidence in making a case for war.

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a liberal-leaning U.S. think tank, issued a report on Thursday that compared public and declassified intelligence information with statements made by administration officials.It concluded that the administration made the threat from Iraq sound more dire than the underlying information.<snip>

Mathews said this was an example of how a possibility cited by the inspectors became a likelihood and then a stockpile in Bush's speech.<snip>

(Joseph Cirincione)”In that process they changed something that is an opinion into a fact, and they consistently did this,'' he said at a briefing on the report.<snip>

Former CIA Director Stansfield Turner said he was in general agreement with the Carnegie presentation, and that he believed no Iraqi weapons of mass destruction had been found for several reasons.
``A combination of the intelligence people overestimating what was there, policy people exaggerating the intelligence estimates, combined with the fact that the inspections and destruction by the U.N. from '91 to '98 eliminated a lot of these and made it very difficult for the Iraqis to start it up again because they couldn't get the materials or the equipment,'' he told Reuters.

[BlueEyedSon]

1. Cirincione rocks!

[papau]

2. It is a phrase that MUST be included in Dem speeches

:-)