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>>Well if no one really cared then why were they asking him about it in the first place? See if they had not asked the question to begin with (which they should not of been) then the lie would of never been told. I think this is a little different than say...lying about weapons of mass destruction for example...
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>Please provide one piece of documented evidence that the administration "lied". Remember, to accuse Bush and related leaders that they were lying, you have to prove that they knew there weren't WMDs, but still told the country that they existed.
>At least once a week I correct my daughter when she says that someone (teacher, classmate, etc) lied. I try to explain to her the difference between deceit and false statements.
>Candidly, I think it's sloppy logic to accuse someone of lying when there is no proof of deceit.

Wasn't it at least Rumsfeld who called some of his spoken words a "misstatement" ? If you define uttering something you know not to be true as lying (leaving out graduations like "white" lies, unclear wordings, drunken ramblings and so on - at least if not corrected soonest when sober). I do not think that the topic coming up when selling his biography disqualifies it as "evidence". Or what level of documentation and qualification are you seeking?

>Regarding WMD, you can say the intelligence was wrong. You can say we were too quick to believe Hussein when he boasted of a large stockpile. That's not lying. There's a major difference between lying and being wrong (or even grossly wrong). And remember - other nations (even those who didn't want to join us in the Iraqi war) believed that Iraq held large stockpiles of WMDs.

Hussein ALWAYS said he did not have WMD's. Which he would have said as well even if he had some - until the day he would use them. What he did was trying to stop inspection teams at least temporarily, which helped to create a fog of uncertainty he could use against close enemies and bolster the picture of him "fighting" the infidels. Bush should have called his bluff: support the inspectors with 6 platoons plus air vehicles via mandate and force inspections: enough bloodshed done there to US troops would have given him a reason harder to debate in history.