They are urging legislators not to cave in to what amounts to brute intimidation under the false pretense that those exercising it represent the entire American Islamic community.

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Yet, neither the President nor his surrogates mounted a robust and sustained challenge to what amounted to an endlessly repeated "Big Lie" - namely, that the "war in Iraq" was an elective and unnecessary one, launched on the false pretense of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) that did not, in fact, exist and, therefore, in the absence of any real threat to this country.

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