On the recordMarch 17, 2004
The soldier's father feels betrayed. On March 17, the President told the country intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised. A week later, Private Brandon Sloan, 19, was killed in Iraq. On Sunday, February 8, Brandon's father heard the President hedge about Saddam Hussein: 'We thought he had weapons. He had the capacity to make a weapon.' The Reverend Tandy Sloan believes there is a key difference between having no doubt a country possesses weapons of mass destruction and having the ability to make them. A minister, he calls that difference the eighth commandment: 'Thou shalt not bear false witness.' It bothers him deeply that the President apparently has no regrets for overstating the danger for weapons of mass destruction that do not appear to exist. Sloan says, 'At least we admit we were wrong.…'
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