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Bush aides distorted truth on Iraq war: Kennedy Conflict marketed as `political product' to win votes: Senator Could `become one of the worst blunders' in U.S. foreign WASHINGTON—U.S. President George W. Bush marketed the war with Iraq as a "political product" and broke faith with the American people by forcing them into an unnecessary conflict, a leading Democratic lawmaker says. In remarks fuelled by former treasury secretary Paul O'Neill's blasts at the Republican White House, Senator Edward Kennedy said yesterday that Bush and his advisers capitalized on fear from the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and put "a spin on the truth to justify a war that could well become one of the worst blunders in more than two centuries of American foreign policy." Speaking to the Center for American Progress, the liberal Democrat from Massachusetts said the Republican administration "has broken faith with the American people, aided and abetted by a congressional majority willing to pursue ideology at any price, even the price of distorting the truth." Kennedy, who has served in the U.S.
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