The Democratic National Party is soliciting funds to air this commercial.

The ad twice shows Bush saying “Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.” It then tells us that everyone knew that was false. But the real aim of the ad is, I believe, to hang that phrase around Bush’s neck the way the Republicans hung “I did not have sexual relations with that woman” around Clinton’s.

And the way the administration tried to wiggle out of it by claiming that the full statement – truncated in the ad – only said that the British had learned this, not that it was true, is more disingenuous than Clinton’s “It depends on what the meaning of ‘is’ is.”

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