Cheney and the moron he told what to do ...
George W. Bush had better grades at Yale than did John Kerry, and has an estimated IQ of 120, which would place him in the top 10% of United States citizens. (That ranking is likely much higher now, as the general intellectual level of United States residents is declining without pause. Thanks to Democrats for their education system, which has brought us this result.)
http://mentalfloss.com/article/28826/9-presidential-candidates-who-werent-great-students
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First, Bush is definitely intelligent. The IQ estimates range between 111.1 and 138.5, with an average around 125. That places him in the upper range of college graduates in raw intellect (Cronbach, 1960). Admittedly, this average is influenced by Cox's (1926) corrected scores, which may be overestimates. Yet even if we focus on just the uncorrected IQs, the range is between 111.1 and 128.5, with a mean around 120, which is about the average IQ for a college graduate in the United States. In addition, the figure is more than one standard deviation above the population mean, placing Bush in the upper 10% of the intelligence distribution (Storfer, 1990). These results endorse what has been claimed on the basis of his SAT scores and his Harvard MBA, namely, that his IQ most likely exceeds 115 (Immelman, 2001)
http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~gary/iq.html
He also earned an MBA at Harvard. So he graduated Yale, earned an MBA at Harvard, and has an IQ of 120, ranking in the upper 10% or better of United States citizens.
He is clearly better educated and vastly smarter than you.
Or do you claim to have degrees from Yale and Harvard?
Cheney and the moron he told what to do decide to invade a country based on complete bullshit.
I have already hammered this lazy, stupid argument so many times that doing so yet again is simply irritating.
So what "big lie"? Uranium cake in Niger? Nope, sorry. That claim was based on intelligence from Britain, and that source has never withdrawn the claim. You can take exception to the accuracy of the claim, but calling it a lie is 100% unfounded.
As to the 2002 document that causes so much consternation - that was not the source of the allegation. The source was always the report from British intelligence:
He describes a strong consensus among European intelligence services that between 1999 and 2001 Niger was engaged in illicit negotiations over the export of its "yellow cake" uranium ore with North Korea, Libya, Iraq, Iran, and China. The British intelligence report on this matter, once cited by President Bush, has never been disowned or withdrawn by its authors. The bogus document produced by an Italian con man in October 2002, which has caused such embarrassment, was therefore more like a forgery than a fake: It was a fabricated version of a true bill.
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/fighting_words/2004/07/plames_lame_game.html
What else? Chemical weapons? Yeah, no ...
"Together we must also confront the new hazards of chemical and biological weapons, and the outlaw states, terrorists and organized criminals seeking to acquire them. Saddam Hussein has spent the better part of this decade, and much of his nation's wealth, not on providing for the Iraqi people, but on developing nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them."
President Clinton, Jan. 27, 1998.
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/01/27/sotu/transcripts/clinton/index2.html
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Fateful decisions will be made in the days and weeks ahead. At issue is nothing less than the fundamental question of whether or not we can keep the most lethal weapons known to mankind out of the hands of an unreconstructed tyrant and aggressor who is in the same league as the most brutal dictators of this century."
Sen. Joe Biden (D, DE), Feb. 12, 1998
http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CREC-1998-02-12/pdf/CREC-1998-02-12-pt1-PgS708.pdf#page=5
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We urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of mass destruction programs."
Letter to President Clinton, signed by Sens. Carl Levin, Tom Daschle, John Kerry, and others Oct. 9, 1998.
http://www.reasons-for-war-with-iraq.info/senate_letter_10-09-98.pdf
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As a member of the House Intelligence Committee, I am keenly aware that the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons is an issue of grave importance to all nations. Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998.
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We begin with the common belief that Saddam Hussein is a tyrant and a threat to the peace and stability of the region. He has ignored the mandate of the United Nations and is building weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them."
Sen. Carl Levin (D, MI), Sept. 19, 2002.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080330...ate.gov/~levin/newsroom/release.cfm?id=211370
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We know that he has stored away secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country."
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Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power."
Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/transcripts/gore_text092302.html
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I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force — if necessary — to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security."
Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Oct. 9, 2002.
http://www.reasons-for-war-with-iraq.info/john-kerry-10-9-2002.pdf
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Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime .... He presents a particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to miscalculation ... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass destruction .... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real ...."
Sen. John F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003.
http://www.reasons-for-war-with-iraq.info/john-kerry-1-23-2003.pdf
So get off your lazy, sloppy "Bush lied" meme. Grow up and take a look at what was being said in 2002 - when Congress voted and AUTHORIZED the military action in Iraq.
Unlike Bammy in Libya, or Syria, or anywhere for that matter.