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Frustration
Dec. 19th, 2003 09:38 amDiane Sawyer interviewed the President this past week.
When asked whether the American people are wrong to think that the administration deliberately misled them by saying that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction when the evidence pointed to him not having them but wanting to acquire them, the President answered:
The difference? Try the difference between the American people following you into war because they believed they were in imminent danger of having those weapons used on them as opposed to not following you into war because there were no such weapons out there. The difference is the vast gulf of fear and paranoia inspired by your statements. The difference is 321 American deaths since the end of major hostilities.
There were other ways to remove Saddam Hussein. Lying to the American people to remove him was the basest way to do so.
( Read the relevant excerpt from the interview. )
When asked whether the American people are wrong to think that the administration deliberately misled them by saying that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction when the evidence pointed to him not having them but wanting to acquire them, the President answered:
PRESIDENT BUSH: So what's the difference?
The difference? Try the difference between the American people following you into war because they believed they were in imminent danger of having those weapons used on them as opposed to not following you into war because there were no such weapons out there. The difference is the vast gulf of fear and paranoia inspired by your statements. The difference is 321 American deaths since the end of major hostilities.
There were other ways to remove Saddam Hussein. Lying to the American people to remove him was the basest way to do so.
( Read the relevant excerpt from the interview. )
