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A multitude of public figures and especially intelligence experts knew full well the extent of Bush's deceptions and exaggerations during his war drum period. Bush is far more culpable than Clinton or Kerry because he was the one asking the questions of the CIA, the one who set up a special division in the Defense Department to gather every shred of intelligence that supported the war effort and suppress evidence that contradicted it. (And whereas Kerry gave the authorization--wrongly in my opinion--which could have been used as an effective threat to back up inspections, Bush is responsible for the premature use of that authorization, for ignoring the fact that the threat was effective and full-scale invasion was hardly necessary to contain Saddam.) Bush is also the one with the responsibility to ask tougher questions of the CIA, and for goodness sake, to avoid overstating what they did tell him. Frankly, he is responsible for thousands of deaths, and he's not the first president to be so.

(The Oil for Food scandal is indeed just that, but are you trying to imply that it justifies the war in some convoluted way? Let's hope not...)

Cry of the Poor

"How can it be that even today there are still people dying of hunger? Condemned to illiteracy? Lacking the most basic medical care? Without a roof over their heads? . . .

"Christians must learn to make their act of faith in Christ by discerning His voice in the cry for help that rises from this world of poverty."
-- Pope John Paul II
Novo Millennio Ineunte, no. 50

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