Podhoretz Writes Definitive Piece on Bush "Lies"

Norman Podhoretz, father of John Podhoretz, who writes for the New York Post, put together this piece, which I would say is definitive proof that those who claim President Bush lied about Saddam Hussein's possession of weapons of mass destruction, are themselves the liars. Not only did the president not lie, but those who are claiming he did today in fact know this is a ridiculous claim and many were out in front saying the exact same things about Saddam Hussein before the war that the president was saying.

Here is an excerpt:

But the consensus on which Bush relied was not born in his own
administration. In fact, it was first fully formed in the Clinton
administration. Here is Clinton himself, speaking in 1998:

If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq’s
weapons-of-mass-destruction program.

Here is his Secretary of State Madeline Albright, also speaking in 1998:

Iraq is a long way from [the USA], but what happens there matters a great deal here. For the risk that the leaders of a rogue state will use nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons against us or our allies is the greatest security threat we face.

Here is Sandy Berger, Clinton’s National Security Adviser, who chimed in at the same time with this flat-out assertion about Saddam:

He will use those weapons of mass destruction again, as he has ten times since 1983.

Finally, Clinton’s Secretary of Defense, William Cohen, was so sure
Saddam had stockpiles of WMD that he remained “absolutely convinced” of it even after our failure to find them in the wake of the invasion in March 2003.

Podhoretz's article is must-reading for anyone who believes "Bush Lied," or argues with someone who does.