Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

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Disappointing to watch Ron Paul stay silent at the debate Tuesday night when Mitt Romney kicked it off with a big lie giving Bush and the GOP cover for starting the war.


"MITT ROMNEY, FORMER GOVERNOR OF MASSACHUSETTS: Well, the question is, kind of, a non sequitur, if you will. What I mean by that -- or a null set -- that is that if you're saying let's turn back the clock and Saddam Hussein had opening up his country to IAEA inspectors and they'd come in and they'd found that there were no weapons of mass destruction, had Saddam Hussein therefore not violated United Nations resolutions, we wouldn't be in the conflict we're in.

But he didn't do those things, and we knew what we knew at the point we made the decision to get in."

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0706/05/se.01.html


Two people at the debate had a duty to call Romney on that outrageous lie - Blitzer as the "neutral" moderator and Paul as the lone war opponent but both folded like cheap suites.