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[asheris]

From Glider of BMEzine:

Let's see what else is on TV. Pretty funny coverage of Bush's lying over on ABC. Now, maybe you're saying "damn liberal ABC", but realize that what you're actually doing is arguing for media to lie to cover up lies by a politician who you misguidedly believe is on "your side". Anyway, this is what Bush said:

We agree that the world is better off with Saddam Hussein sitting in a prison cell. And that stands in stark contrast to the statement that my opponent made yesterday, when he said that the world was better off with Saddam in power. I strongly disagree.

Jennings steps in and says (actually intoning and emphasizing the word I'm presenting in bold), "And this is what Mr. Kerry actually said," then cutting to the following clip of Kerry:

Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator who deserves his own special place in Hell. But that was not...in and of itself, a reason to go to war. The satisfaction...that we take in his downfall does not hide this fact: We have traded a dictator for a chaos that has left America less secure.

Anyway, it was funny to see the media for once call Bush on one of his really blantant lies. Hopefully it'll continue as a general trend, but I doubt it.

What is it with Bush and his utter refusal to actually respond to what's been said, instead of making something up out of whole cloth and shooting that down? I swear to the gods that man has no grounding whatsoever in reality.

Comments

[keith-london.livejournal.com]

"But that was not...in and of itself, a reason to go to war." That is bad judgement, IMO. Many would actually have supported military action to remove Saddam from power for humanitarian reasons. After all, ultra-liberal people who are might be glad that Saddam is gone, always say "but that wasn't why we went in".

From what Kerry said, it is reasonable to infer that had he kept that same view were he in power at the time, he would have left Saddam in power. Yes it is a little bit of hyperbole to equate that to Kerry believing "that the world was better off with Saddam in power". I don't think Bush "lied". He made an incorrect inference.