According to a report in the Aberdeen American News, Senator Tom Daschle told reporters on Friday that the Iraq war was "started under false pretenses." Is Daschle saying that President Bush deliberately lied to get this country into a war? Daschle listed two of the "false pretenses":
1) There were no weapons of mass destruction that posed an imminent danger; and
2) There was no link between Hussein and the al-Qaida terrorist groups that attacked the World Trade Center and Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001
Okay. Eviscerating the first claim is simple enough: Bush never said that WMD posed an imminent danger. He said in his 2003 State of the Union address that we can't afford to wait for Iraq's WMD to become an imminent threat. See this post at Instapundit.
The jury is still out on the second claim.
The bottom line: this is yet another example of Tom Daschle's "Kerryitis."
UPDATE: Blogger Gerry Daly points out that the Clinton Justice Department brought an indictment against Osama bin Laden, claiming, among other things, that Osama and the government of Iraq had reached an understanding "that al Qaeda would not work against that government and that on particular projects, specifically including weapons development, al Qaeda would work cooperatively with the Government of Iraq."
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