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I recently sent the following letter to the New York Times:

To the Editor:

You recently took to your editorial pages to fire yet one more shot at President Bush (“The Deluder in Chief,” editorial, Dec. 7). Your assertion that the President “knew or should have known” that intelligence was faulty is not supported by the facts. Not only did every major intelligence service share our conclusions, but they were widely accepted by prominent Democrats.  Dr. Susan Rice, appointed by President-elect Obama to be U.N. ambassador and now falsely remembered as an early critic of the war, said in 2003 that, “I don’t think many informed people doubted that [Saddam has WMD’s].”

There is a strong argument that the Iraq war has made us less secure, or that what benefits may come are not worth the high costs. But your editorial goes further, and insists on perpetrating the “Bush lied, people died” mantra of the radical left. This is a sophomoric argument, and the self-proclaimed “paper of record” should not so easily distort and twist that record.

Sincerely,

Brian Garst

George W. Bush Iraq letter to the editor