Honesty. Last night I wrote about Kerry's history of lies. What about Bush? The Bush-bashers have been saying that Bush lied for years. Is it true?

No.

The two most commonly cited examples are the statement on yellowcake in the 2003 State of the Union address and the existence of WMDs in Iraq.

The yellowcake statement was addressed last Summer. The British still stand by their report. The Bush-basher who said that he knew the report was false as soon as he saw it admitted that he never saw it and that the report he turned in indicated that, yes Saddam was trying to buy Uranium.

As for the WMDs, Bush didn't lie, Saddam did. Saddam was sure that without WMDs, Iran would attack him. He was also sure that use of WMDs had saved him from Iran during the war in the 1980s and that the US-led coalition had not invaded Iraq in 1991 for fear of WMDs.

Accordingly, Saddam gave conflicting statements. Officially he said that he didn't have them but he couldn't say what happened to the known stockpiles that he possessed in 1991. He maintained his programs, even if the people assigned to them were actually working on unrelated projects.

Yes, Bush believed Saddam. So did everyone else. When someone who has used WMDs hints that he still has them you have to take him seriously.

Should Bush have acted? Yes. The justification for the war was not that Saddam had WMDs. It was that he was rebuilding his programs and might share them with terrorists.

Saddam's relationship with terrorists cannot be questioned although there is still argument over the relationship between the terrorists Saddam sheltered and al Qaeda.

Anyway, I have yet to hear anyone catch Bush in an outright lie. The same cannot be said for Kerry.

Someone posted a comment asking why I consider PBS to be liberal? I admit that the only things I watch on PBS are Antique Roadshow and History Detectives. I agree that PBS has some very conservative shows on - Sunday morning.

If you go to church on Sunday or simply sleep late (which is what I do) then you miss PBS's entire conservative lineup. The liberal lineup tends to show up on weeknights between 6 pm and midnight.

The show I had commented on is an example of what they put on when people are most likely to be watching. They contrasted Kerry's service with Bush's. They never mentioned any controversy about Kerry's time in Viet Nam and the transition to war protestor seemed heroic. For Bush, they never mentioned his ability as a pilot, they were too busy talking about his drinking and partying.