(Poll finds Leaders Lied) Bush and Blair keep howling about Saddam

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DERRICK Z. JACKSON
Bush and Blair keep howling about Saddam
By Derrick Z. Jackson | July 21, 2004

LAST MONTH a New York Times poll found that 20 percent of Americans believed that President Bush was "mostly lying" in his statements about the war in Iraq and 59 percent said he was "hiding something." Only 18 percent said he gave Americans the "entire truth."

In Britain, a poll this week in the Guardian found that 55 percent of voters believedd that Prime Minister Tony Blair lied over Iraq, compared with 37 percent who believed he did not lie. Another poll this week in the Sunday Times found that 46 percent of people believed that Blair distorted the evidence about Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction, compared with 43 percent who said that Blair genuinely believed in the evidence he was presented by his intelligence agencies.

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Bush said: "Listen, we thought there were going to be stockpiles of weapons. I thought so; the Congress thought so; the UN thought so."

Oddly, even though these official inquiries do not indict the leaders, the people have begun to, on their own. Perhaps that is because Bush and Blair continue to exaggerate Saddam's threat.


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