LONDON ¨C U.S. President George W. Bush wasn¡¯t lying about Iraq after all, and those of us who said he was owe him an apology.
Saddam Hussein did have weapons of mass destruction. We just didn¡¯t read the small print. When Bush said in a speech: ¡°Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof ¡ª the smoking gun ¡ª that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud,¡± we thought that he was talking about nuclear weapons. And many of us didn¡¯t believe him.
When Vice President Dick Cheney assured us: ¡°There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends ...and against us,¡± we just assumed he was lying as usual.
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