Slate | The debate was a draw, but Bush's truth troubles continue

"[...] Devenish was the only Bush spinner I spoke to after the debate who didn't try to defend the president's strange assertion about the Duelfer report, that it shows that sanctions weren't working in Iraq. 'I have to confess to being a campaign official and not an NSC spokesgal,' she said. By contrast, here was Dan Bartlett: 'Charlie Duelfer said both in the report and in his testimony that sanctions were unraveling, that the gaming of the system that Saddam Hussein was doing was doing just that. He was trying to game it by bribing people.' "

If you wanted to invade Iraq, as did Bubba Bush and his neo-nincompoop buddies, then you really believe that the Duelfer report, which reiterated, as did Hans Blix at the time, that Iraq had no WMDs after 1991, shows that the sanctions weren't working. In effect, Bubbas chose to ignore the facts, mix things up, and then say that the evidence supports their case, even when the evidence supports the contrary.

Strange assertions: that's Bubba Logic.