Will America stand still for the corruption of its democracy? That’s the real question voters
\nare about to answer — whether they will accept The Big Lie or repudiate it, whether they will go
\nalong with The Liar or throw him out of office.<\/P>
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On Nov. 2, voters will have their chance to redeem America’s reputation for democratic
\nprinciples. If they do not, if they submit to The Big Lie, if they let themselves be swayed by The
\nLiar and his minions, who’ve upped the ante by amplifying The Big Lie in the debates and on the
\nstump, they will have forfeited any claim to innocence. It’s not as if the voters haven’t been
\nwarned. They’ve been told time and again of The Big Lie, today more than ever.<\/P>
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In this morning’s lead editorial, “Weapons That Weren’t There,”<\/FONT><\/B><\/A> Most people except our prevaricatin’ prez, that is.<\/P> Which means there was no “imminent threat,” no “grave and gathering danger,” no reason for “The 1,000-page report by Charles A. Duelfer, head of the CIA’s Iraq Survey Group How many times must it be said? For our prevaricatin’ prez, never enough times. He prefers He also refuses to acknowledge reality. And it’s not just the reality of what’s happening in
\nThe Washington Post says: <\/P>
\nThe new report from the Iraq Survey Group has confirmed beyond any
\nreasonable doubt what most people have assumed for the past year: At the time of the 2003 U.S.
\ninvasion, Iraq did not possess weapons of mass destruction, and most of its programs to produce
\nthem were dormant.<\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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\nIn more than a year of investigation, the survey group found “no evidence to
\nsuggest concerted efforts to restart” the Iraqi nuclear weapons program that had been halted in
\n1991; there were “no credible indications that Baghdad resumed production of chemical
\nmunitions” after 1991; and there was “no direct evidence that Iraq, after 1996, had plans for a
\nnew BW [biological weapons] program.”<\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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\nthe rush to war in Iraq.<\/P>
\n
\nweapons-hunting teams, is the most definitive account yet of Iraq’s long-defunct weapons
\nprograms,” the Los Angeles Times
\nreports<\/FONT><\/B><\/A>. <\/P>
\nThe Iraqi regime had no formal, written strategy to revive the banned
\nprograms after sanctions, and no staff or infrastructure in place to do so, the investigators found.
\nThe report said that Hussein’s illicit-weapons capability was “essentially destroyed” after the
\nPersian Gulf War in 1991 and was never rebuilt. It said Hussein considered the U.N. sanctions “an
\neconomic stranglehold” that in effect curbed his ability to build or develop weapons in the ensuing
\n12 years.<\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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\nThe Big Lie. Yesterday, on the same day the report was released — the official report he has
\nclaimed he’s been waiting for, because it would settle the issue — our prevaricatin’ prez
\nHussein was about to attack the United States and, by implication, had a hand in the terrorist
\nattacks of 9\/11. Retooling his stump speech in Michigan, he asserted:<\/P>
\nIn our debate, Senator Kerry said that removing Saddam Hussein was a
\nmistake because the threat was not imminent,” Mr. Bush said. “The problem with this approach is
\nobvious: if America waits until a threat is at our doorstep, it might be too late to save lives.
\nTyrants and terrorists will not give us polite notice before they launch an attack on our country. I
\nrefuse to stand by while dangers gather.”<\/BLOCKQUOTE>
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\nIraq. It’s what’s happening here at home. <\/P>
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