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Calling either of those writers liberals is stretching reality more than somewhat. And in any case those articles, like Moore's own works, are opinion pieces. That they draw different conclusions from the facts or place more weight on other facts, does not undermine the validity of the facts that Moore presented.
Moore didn't originate any of his material: he assembled it from a wide variety of sources in the US and abroad. Write off the French, German and Italian sources if you want (since you will doubtless say they were against the invasion of Iraq from the start), but that still leaves - among many others - UK newspapers, including centrist like the Independent and right-wing like the Daily Telegraph.
Apologists for Bush's administration need to get their heads out of their asses. If a Democrat had taken the country to war based on a pack of lies, half-truths and omissions, and helped his friends get the major share of the trough, Republicans would be all over him and Moore would be their hero. So stop trying to make out that anyone who disagrees with Bush is a liberal or a conspiracy theorist. Stop implying the facts are lies, when you cannot point up a single one that is inaccurate.
Like it or not, Moore has put together a piece of work that will persuade many people to his point of view. If you want to get them back before November, stop wasting your time on rhetoric and put your side of the story as coherently as he put his.
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