Sunday, July 13, 2003

New Republican spin: "technically accurate"

Restoring Bush's credibility -- Rummy gives it the old college try.

James Risen of the Times writes:

And Mr. Rumsfeld said on the NBC News program "Meet the Press": "It turns out that it's technically correct what the president said, that the U.K. does — did say that — and still says that. They haven't changed their mind, the United Kingdom intelligence people."

On the ABC News program "This Week," Mr. Rumsfeld added: "It didn't rise to the standard of a presidential speech, but it's not known, for example, that it was inaccurate. In fact, people think it was technically accurate."

How... Clintonian. Except that when Bush lies, soldiers die.