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Bill O'Reilly echoed false Bush claim that Kerry saw "same intelligence" as Bush

Referring to prewar intelligence on Saddam Hussein's Iraq, FOX News Channel host and radio host Bill O'Reilly claimed that Senator John Kerry "saw the same stuff" as President George W. Bush and judged that, in O'Reilly's words, "Saddam was a threat." But a recent New York Times investigation into available pre-war intelligence documented that the administration did not share with Congress or the public all the relevant intelligence on Iraq, particularly the widespread doubt about Iraq's alleged nuclear weapons program. On the October 8 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, O'Reilly offered Bush advice on arguments he should make at the presidential debate that evening: [more ]
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