The columnist isn't exactly one of the above described BDS crowd so the op ed will be dismissed as a Bushie supporter's views long known, but the surprise here is that the Slimes allowed this oped to appear within their liberal ragsheet at all.
Bush never lied to us about Iraq -Los Angeles Times: "Touring Vietnam in 1965, Michigan Gov. George Romney proclaimed American involvement there 'morally right and necessary.' Two years later, however, Romney -- then seeking the Republican presidential nomination -- not only recanted his support for the war but claimed that he had been hoodwinked.
'When I came back from Vietnam, I had just had the greatest brainwashing that anybody can get,' Romney told a Detroit TV reporter who asked the candidate how he reconciled his shifting views.
Romney (father of Mitt) had visited Vietnam with nine other governors, all of whom denied that they had been duped by their government. With this one remark, his presidential hopes were dashed.
The memory of this gaffe reverberates in the contemporary rhetoric of many Democrats, who, when attacking the Bush administration's case for war against Saddam Hussein, employ essentially the same argument. In 2006, John F. Kerry explained the Senate's 77-23 passage of the Iraq war resolution this way: 'We were misled. We were given evidence that was not true.' On the campaign trail, Hillary Rodham Clinton dodged blame for her pro-war vote by claiming that 'the mistakes were made by this president, who misled this country and this Congress.' continued here
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