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