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Man bites dog—excuse me, Bush defends himself from leftist lies
President Bush replies—finally—to the Democrats’ lying charges that he lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and the Washington Post’s headline on the story suggests the President is in “campaign” mode—simply for defending himself from a campaign of lies that’s been going on for months. Powerline has a well-written and well-reasoned analysis of the Post’s spin. But Powerline’s final, sad point is correct: This is not the start of Bush effectively defending himself and correcting lies. He doesn’t believe in doing that. He only finally responded to the “He lied” charge because it had become absolutely imperative that he do so. Now he’ll go silent again, and let the Democrats go on lying about him and feeding their politics of hate, damaging not just Bush but the country. That is Bush’s established pattern. If he had given a speech at the beginning of 2001 responding to all the insane statements about his “disenfranchising blacks” in Florida, he might have drained some of the horrible poisons that the left had created, he might have lessened the ugliness that has infected our politics over the last few years. But he let those poisons stand, spread, and continue to toxify our whole political system. At bottom, Bush doesn’t mind it when liberals tell monstrous lies about him, though he gets very annoyed when conservatives have principled disagreements with him.
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