The AP Headline, "Bush, Cheney Concede Iraq Had No WMDs"
I'm shocked. No, seriously. I'm shocked that these two would come ever come close to admitting this, much less flat out saying it. Here are the actual quotes.
On Thursday, the president used the clearest language to date nailing the question shut:
"Iraq did not have the weapons that our intelligence believed were there," Bush said. His words placed the blame on U.S. intelligence agencies.
As for Cheney: "The headlines all say `no weapons of mass destruction stockpiled in Baghdad.' We already knew that."
For a long time, I thought that these two had repeated their big lie regarding weapons so often that they actually believed their own bullshit. That's the only way big lies are effective - to repeat them so often that you, the liar, becomes a true believer. But maintaining a lie like that is an enormous strain. Eventually, you admit the truth or you snap.
This is going to be the nail in the coffin of the Bush-Cheney oligarchy. No boasting, no wishful thinking, just gut feeling. This admission will bury them.
Posted by mike at October 7, 2004 11:24 PM