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Nets Lend Credibility to 'Bombshell' Iraq Deception Allegations

CBS, NBC, MSNBC and CNN all jumped Tuesday to publicize the claims in a new book by a left-wing journalist, Ron Suskind, that President Bush knew before the war Iraq had no WMD and that to justify the war the administration forged a letter to prove a connection between Saddam Hussein's regime and al-Qaeda.

The journalists were unfazed by denials from former CIA Director George Tenet, nor the fact the alleged letter couldn't have impacted the public before the war since it didn't become public until nine months into the war.

The Weekly Standard's Stephen Hayes undermined Suskind's allegations as he observed, on the magazine's blog:

To believe Suskind's account...you would have to believe: 1) that the Bush administration ordered the CIA, in writing, to forge a letter that was a rather obvious hoax; 2) that the CIA, hostile to the Bush administration and leaking against it at every turn, eagerly complied.

If the Bush administration went to the trouble of manufacturing such evidence isn't it likely they would have used it?

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CNN Highlights Viewer Who Wants Bush 'Executed for Treason'

Deciding to showcase the allegations in Ron Suskind's new book which “says President Bush committed an impeachable offense” by ordering “the CIA to forge a letter to bolster his case for the war in Iraq,” CNN's Jack Cafferty posed as one of his “Cafferty File” questions on Tuesday: “What does it mean, do you suppose, if the White House did, in fact, order the CIA to forge a letter in order to bolster its case for the war in Iraq?”

"Bush, Cheney, et cetera deserved to be clapped in irons, held for trial and executed for treason."

Fellow anchor Wolf Blitzer marveled: “We're just hearing now, Jack, that there may be an effort in the Congress to now go ahead and have some hearings on this explosive, explosive charge.”

Both Cafferty and Blitzer's segments presumed the accuracy of Suskind's claims without question.

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