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New York Times: Massive Quantities of WMD Discovered in Iraq After All

By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, October 16 2014

So it turns out that "Bush lied!" proved itself a lie. Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein possessed massive quantities of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) after all. That according to none other than the leftist New York Times. First, let's address that deranged "Bush lied, people died!" slogan. Anyone who casts that invective in reference to the 2003 Iraq invasion and the question of WMD demonstrates an unfitness to participate in political discourse. It is uninformed, dishonest or an amalgam thereof. To "lie" requires deliberate…

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