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St. Pete Times questions Bush's "credibility"

SP Times:

Hundreds of Americans and thousands of Iraqis have died during a war that the Bush administration justified on the basis of the need to eliminate the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. There can be only two possible explanations for the enormous gap between the administration's dire warnings before the war and the utter lack of evidence to support those warnings now:

Either the CIA and other intelligence agencies wildly miscalculated the threat posed by Iraq - which would raise troubling questions about whether they might be similarly off base in underestimating threats elsewhere in the world . . .

. . . Or President Bush and other members of his administration purposely exaggerated, distorted or fabricated evidence against Iraq to justify their war plans - which would raise even more troubling questions about the integrity and lawfulness of our government.