Saying its "amazing it took the White House this long to get it back together and fight on this issue,� Fred Barnes said President Bush and his administration are ready to state their defense for fighting the war on terror and liberating Iraq from Saddam Hussein.
Barnes, executive editor of The Weekly Standard, told Fox News that the president and his team will launch an aggressive defense against the misleading and vicious attacks - primarily by hypocritical Democrats - that "Bush lied� about the war in Iraq.
"Steve Hadley, the national security adviser, certainly refuted the critics Thursday,� Barnes said. "He told the critics who said the president manipulated WMD intelligence that they are mistaken, citing all of the comments made by high-ranking Democrats [such as Sens. Clinton, Kennedy, Kerry, Schumer, Reid, Rockefeller etc.] who backed the war based on the same information.�
The negative comments by Democrats about the war in Iraq have damaged President Bush�s credibility, as reflected in his plummeting poll ratings. Barnes is confident that those numbers will rise as Americans are reminded that Saddam was a killer and his history of possessing and using weapons of mass destruction made it essential that he be removed from power.
If you�ll notice, Democrats say �Bush Lied� but they never cite specific examples,� Barnes said. "That�s because they were saying the same things and many of their comments are captured on tape.
"To say that the president lied about the reasons to liberate Iraq is just incorrect. Ask the people of Iraq and they'll tell you that Saddam had to be removed. There is no doubt about that."
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