The lie turns

Yet more evidence that George W. Bush lied to the American people and the world:

Karl Rove, President Bush’s chief political adviser, cautioned other White House aides in the summer of 2003 that Bush’s 2004 re-election prospects would be severely damaged if it was publicly disclosed that he had been personally warned that a key rationale for going to war had been challenged within the administration. Rove expressed his concerns shortly after an informal review of classified government records by then-Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen J. Hadley determined that Bush had been specifically advised that claims he later made in his 2003 State of the Union address – that Iraq was procuring high-strength aluminium tubes to build a nuclear weapon – might not be true, according to government records and interviews.… 

Meanwhile, Bush continues to defend his “global war on terror.” So many terrorists, so little time.

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