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Article: Bush's Iraq lies are only a symptom
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- Michigan Quarterly Review
- Article date:
- August 2, 2003
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Chernus, Ira
Michigan Citizen
08-02-2003
The flap over the falsified intelligence reports on Iraq grows bigger every
day. Now centrist pundits, like the Washington Post's venerable David
Broder, warn that it could open the door to a Bush defeat in 2004.
The mainstream press wants us to focus on one very specific lie: Iraq never
tried to buy uranium from Niger. It's a typical soundbite. No big picture,
no historical context, no larger implications.
This kind of thing can bring a president down. Richard Nixon did not resign
because he was caught undermining fundamental principles of American
democracy. He resigned only because he was caught lying about paying hush
money to a few low-level operatives.
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