Editorial: Rewriting history or telling the truth?
November 15, 2005
President Bush and his supporters are in attack mode over Iraq. They're claiming that critics who accuse the administration of hyping the case for war are attempting to "rewrite history." In an unusual Veterans Day speech, Bush said, "When I made the decision to remove Saddam Hussein from power, Congress approved it with strong bipartisan support." He went on to say that Congress had "the same intelligence" the administration had. That, dear readers, is an audacious effort to rewrite history.
There were two large errors in Bush's statement. First, what Congress had was intelligence scrubbed of all the doubts, warnings and caveats raised by the intelligence community.
Second, Congress did not vote for the definite use of force, let alone for the removal of Saddam Hussein from power. It authorized the use of force if necessary to ensure that Iraq either gave up its weapons of mass destruction or proved it didn't have any...http://tinyurl.com/7pkpc
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