Wednesday, March 22, 2006

What to do? What to do?

At his news conference yesterday, President Bush said:
We worked to make sure that Saddam Hussein heard the message of the world. And when he chose to deny the inspectors, when he chose not to disclose, then I had the difficult decision to make to remove him. And we did. And the world is safer for it.

The problem with that statement, as Eric Alterman points out in his blog today, is:
Remember the inspectors were in Iraq doing their job when George W. Bush, not Saddam Hussein, kicked them out in order to launch a war that was opposed by most of the word.

Mr. Alterman notes that this is not the first time the President has made this statement that does not agree with the facts. Mr. Alterman calls the President a liar. What do you think? And if the President is indeed a liar, do you think anyone in a pulpit might care to point that out?

Read more here.