November 30, 2006 11:53AM 

# If George Did It 

By [Jerry Taylor](https://www.cato.org/people/jerry-taylor) 

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What if journalist [Seymour Hersh](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seymour_Hersh), former CIA agent [Valerie Plame Wilson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Plame_Wilson), and former vice president [Al Gore](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_gore) were poisoned within rapid succession of one another and strong circumstantial evidence suggested that President Bush was behind all three murders? Do you think the European political class would react a bit more intensely than they have been reacting to President Putin’s recent impersonation of [Tony Soprano](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Soprano)?

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