Did Bush manipulate Iraq data?

[Growler]

The truth of the matter is that this is not "Mr. Bush's War", it is America at war and it is a popular war and if Mr. Bush doesn't pursue the war with vigor America will get itself a president who will. Anyone in America whose job involves keeping up with the mood of the county realizes this (major political figures, media companies.) Demogoging the lie of "Bush lied" has absolutely no chance of getting traction beyond the radical anti-Bush crowd and everyone knows it, so it gets little play here.

And it is a lie itself that Bush lied.

As Kenneth Pollack, formerly on Bill Clinton's national security staff, recently noted in The New York Times, "At no point before the war did the French, the Russians, the Chinese or any other country with an intelligence operation capable of collecting information in Iraq say it doubted that Baghdad was maintaining a clandestine weapons capability."

Get Your Facts Straight

Even the French said Saddam had WMD, and in the 90's the UN said Saddam had WMD, and Bill Clinton said Saddam had WMD, so this story has no legs. If Bush lied, the whole damn world lied right there with him and for years in advance of Bush deciding to run for president. This lie dries up and blows away at the slightest scrutiny.