Oh, Doug. I am so sorry for asserting unproven things. I expect the truth will come out and we will all discover that Bush never did claim that Iraq was within 45 minutes of a strike using weapons of mass destruction, and never did say that Iraq was an ally of Al Qeda, and never did claim that there was a real and present danger (whatever language he may have used) to the U.S.
I am sure he never claimed to have improved the lot of elderly medical patients with prescrioption drugs, and never asserted he had made sure that the educational needs of the nation were being met.
Here are a few compilations of the falsehoods the man has foisted on his somewhat skeptical public:
For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction [as justification for invading Iraq] because it was the one reason everyone could agree on. - Paul Wolfowitz, Vanity Fair interview, May 28, 2003
From the very beginning, there was a conviction, that Saddam Hussein was a bad person and that he needed to go. Going after Saddam was topic "A" ten days after the inauguration - eight months before Sept. 11. - former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, CBS' 60 Minutes, Jan. 11, 2004
I don't think they [WMD] existed. What everyone was talking about is stockpiles produced after the end of the last [1991] Gulf War, and I don't think there was a large-scale production program in the '90s. - David Kay, former chief weapons inspector of the UN Special Commission on Iraq, Reuters, Jan. 24, 2004
Intelligence "analysts never said there was an imminent threat" from Iraq before the war. - CIA Director George Tenet, speech, Feb. 5, 2004
Never mind. Some people get so spun up in rationalization that they no longer know when a lie is a lie. They have walked away from truth as being of any merit or singificance.
Your Furless Leader is such a one, and he has surrounded himself with ilk.