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President Bush, visiting a frozen pasta business in New Jersey on Monday to tout the tax cut passed last month, also took the opportunity to express his impatience with nagging criticism over the war against Iraq. "This nation acted to a threat from the dictator of Iraq. Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history — 'revisionist historians' is what I like to call them," Bush said
I just call them Democrats myself
Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee announced this weekend that it will investigate charges of exaggerated intelligence. The House Intelligence panel has already announced its own inquiry. Hearings, probably behind closed doors, will include questioning of intelligence analysts about their work.
While they are at it they can question the UN's inspectors, the French, the Germans, the Russians, and the Chinese. They all thought he had them too. People have short memories, especially when there is an election around the corner....
Though the aide said the president does not resent the idea of a congressional investigation, Bush asserted that the United States went to war to respond to a very real threat. "Saddam Hussein was a threat to America and the free world in '91, in '98, in 2003. He continually ignored the demands of the free world, so the United States and friends and allies acted," Bush said. "And this is for certain: Saddam Hussein is no longer a threat to the United States and our friends and allies." |