Bush Bombs in Cleveland

Posted on Mar. 21, 2006

By Robert Scheer

On the third anniversary of the beginning of his Iraq catastrophe, President Bush yet again dealt in denial, but this time the carefully screened audience at the Cleveland City Club wasn’t buying it.

Perhaps most on target was an elderly gentleman who cited what he said were the three main reasons for going to war in Iraq — WMD, Iraq’s ties to the Sept. 11 terrorists and the alleged purchase of nuclear material from Niger — and then noted dryly that all three of these rationales turned out to be false.