Fox News/Cato
by Timothy Lynch

11/25/05

Washington is in high dudgeon these days over the events leading up to the Iraq war. Democrats charge President Bush with misleading the Congress and the electorate over prewar intelligence. Last week, Sen. John Kerry said Mr. Bush’s handling of the war was 'one of the great acts of misleading and deception in American history.' Bristling at the charge, Vice President Dick Cheney rejoined that such attacks are among the 'most dishonest and reprehensible charges that have ever been aired' in Washington. If anything good comes out of this heated debate, it is perhaps the consensus that on the momentous decision of war or peace, presidential deception is repugnant. Can this principle of presidential honesty and candor find an enduring place in our politics?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,176728,00.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp