Clinton may have lied, but over 2,000 did not DIE!

But here is my real point. You are so concerned and so full of venum over the supposed lies of Wilson. Lets say that everything he said was a lie, for the sake of arguement, where is your outrage over the false information given by Bush and crew which got us into this endless and unwinnable war?

I guess my response to you is this, Charlie – It is fine for you to take the position that the Iraq war was a bad decision for the country. Many people feel the same way.

Unfortunately for you, there is no real evidence that the Administration was deliberately deceptive in making its case for war, and the American public by and large accepts that fact. There may have been errors made, but none of them rose to the level of a lie, despite what many on the left preach daily to those who want that to be true.

I am fine with the war, I am glad we are fighting it, and I know we will win. The war was worth fighting for no other reason than to remove a monstrous dictator who had murdered hundreds of thousands of his own people and was defying UN sanctions to the very day of the invasion. The fact that the UN is replete with self-serving corrupt nations, even on the Security Council, is no excuse for us to ignore the danger that Saddam Hussein presented to the world and to his own people.

Wilson attempted to discredit the administration by trading on the credibility he obtained in a questionable manner from the CIA. In the process, he contradicted his own report to the CIA and impinged upon the Iraq war debate with lies supported by credibility he didn’t deserve. The American people had a right to know: a) his credibility problem and b) the suspicious nature of his trip to Niger.

Given all these facts, whether you accept them as such or not, the decision to go to war was justified and right regardless of whether WMD’s were ever found. Wilson’s falsehoods unfairly impugned the Administration’s motives and provoked a response that in turn provoked an investigation. That is my opinion. Your milage may vary.

Here’s what I Ripped and Read in my Podcast today:

What has Wilson to say today? In the LA Times he offers some ideas, which Patterico’s Pontification read and commented on:

Lyin’ Joe Wilson lies again in this morning’s Los Angeles Times,…

Snooze.