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White House Iraq hype undercuts U.S. goals.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Trudy Rubin
Here's what is most disturbing about the fact that the president hyped the case for an Iraq war with shady data.
He doesn't seem to think it matters.
If you have a product to sell _ like soapsuds, or an Iraq war _ the spin you use doesn't matter at all.
That's certainly the impression one got from the Bush performance at a rare presidential news conference on Wednesday. Asked whether the United States lost credibility by building its case for Iraq war on flimsy evidence, the president bobbed and weaved. He said he based his decision for war on "good, sound intelligence."
Why then did the White House have to doctor the case for war?
The president has yet to reveal why the White House pressed ...
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