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430 - 12/2/2005 1:18 PM
Where is the lie? I often hear from the liberals on this site that things are not black and white. Yet when it suits your purpose you try to make it black and white.
According to the article "Yesterday, President Bush claimed that Iraqi security forces “primarily led� the assault on the city of Tal Afar." The article sites a time reporter as contradicting the president in this statement "I was in that battle from the very beginning to the very end. I was with Iraqi units right there on the front line as they were battling with al Qaeda. They were not leading. They were being led by the U.S. green beret special forces with them."
So if there is a green beret team of 6-12 with (or helping lead) a group of 100+ Iraqi soldiers this can truthfully be said as primarily being lead by the Iraqi's. Is that spinning the story no doubt but I would not call it a lie. In other words if you are writing a book and have completed 300 out of 375 pages and someone asks you if you are done and you respond with "I am primarly done" or "I am mostly done" are you lieing? No.
The speech may have no have gone to the level of granularity to make the whole picture clear but I would not call this a lie.
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You forgot the part where one iraqi general had to be escorted out of the field of combat because he started arguing with an American general. Iraqi army for teh win!