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01-23-2008, 02:32 PM
US President George W. Bush and his top officials ran roughshod over the truth in the run-up to the Iraq war lying a total of 935 times, a study released Wednesday found.
Bush and his then secretary of state Colin Powell made the most false statements as they sought to drum up support for the March 2003 invasion to topple Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, the study alleged.
In a damning report, the Center for Public Integrity found "935 false statements by eight top administration officials that mentioned Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction, or links to Al-Qaeda, on at least 532 separate occasions."
"Bush and seven of his administration's top officials methodically propagated erroneous information over the two years beginning on September 11, 2001," the center said.
"These false statements dramatically increased in August 2002, just prior to congressional consideration of a war resolution and during the critical weeks in early 2003 when the president delivered his State of the Union address and Powell delivered his memorable presentation to the UN Security Council," the CPI added.
The study calls into question "the repeated assertions of Bush administration officials that they were merely the unwitting victims of bad intelligence," it added in a statement.
The US president was found to have made the most false statements referring a total of 260 times to Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction and Al-Qaeda alleged links to the Baghdad regime.
But then-secretary of state Powell only just lagged behind with 254 false communications, said the study by the center's founder Charles Lewis and researchers.
Charges that late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had stockpiled an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction were the main argument used publicy in parliaments around the world and in the United Nations to justify the US-led invasion.
But after the invasion they turned out to be untrue, when no weapons of mass destruction were found by the invading forces.
Former national security advisor Condoleezza Rice, then defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and ex-deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz were also fingered in the study, along with former White House press secretaries Ari Fleisher and Scott McClellan.
"This is a report like no other, which calls into question more than 900 false statements that were the underpinnings of the administration's case for war," argued the CPI's Executive Director Bill Buzenberg.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080123/pl_afp/usiraqwarpolitics
Most of us already know this, but for the hard headed, there ya go, now when is this wretched regime going to be impeached, and brought up on charges??? How could Clinton be impeached for getting a bj which is not illegal, yet these fascists that lied a thousand times prior to the war, which has killed hundreds of thousands of people and bankrupted the nation, not be up for immediate impeachment??? The Democrats will go down in history as enablers for not doing anything to stop them, the Republicans of course are all for lying as a means to get into war with the exception of Ron Paul, so they should be investigated to see what laws they broke as well.
Of course, the pro-war media won't give this 1% the coverage the stupid sensationalist crap they smother us with, they'll spend hours a day talking about bank robbers and police chases, but none on the crimes they should be talking about all day long...:nonono::nonono:
Bush and his then secretary of state Colin Powell made the most false statements as they sought to drum up support for the March 2003 invasion to topple Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, the study alleged.
In a damning report, the Center for Public Integrity found "935 false statements by eight top administration officials that mentioned Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction, or links to Al-Qaeda, on at least 532 separate occasions."
"Bush and seven of his administration's top officials methodically propagated erroneous information over the two years beginning on September 11, 2001," the center said.
"These false statements dramatically increased in August 2002, just prior to congressional consideration of a war resolution and during the critical weeks in early 2003 when the president delivered his State of the Union address and Powell delivered his memorable presentation to the UN Security Council," the CPI added.
The study calls into question "the repeated assertions of Bush administration officials that they were merely the unwitting victims of bad intelligence," it added in a statement.
The US president was found to have made the most false statements referring a total of 260 times to Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction and Al-Qaeda alleged links to the Baghdad regime.
But then-secretary of state Powell only just lagged behind with 254 false communications, said the study by the center's founder Charles Lewis and researchers.
Charges that late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had stockpiled an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction were the main argument used publicy in parliaments around the world and in the United Nations to justify the US-led invasion.
But after the invasion they turned out to be untrue, when no weapons of mass destruction were found by the invading forces.
Former national security advisor Condoleezza Rice, then defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and ex-deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz were also fingered in the study, along with former White House press secretaries Ari Fleisher and Scott McClellan.
"This is a report like no other, which calls into question more than 900 false statements that were the underpinnings of the administration's case for war," argued the CPI's Executive Director Bill Buzenberg.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080123/pl_afp/usiraqwarpolitics
Most of us already know this, but for the hard headed, there ya go, now when is this wretched regime going to be impeached, and brought up on charges??? How could Clinton be impeached for getting a bj which is not illegal, yet these fascists that lied a thousand times prior to the war, which has killed hundreds of thousands of people and bankrupted the nation, not be up for immediate impeachment??? The Democrats will go down in history as enablers for not doing anything to stop them, the Republicans of course are all for lying as a means to get into war with the exception of Ron Paul, so they should be investigated to see what laws they broke as well.
Of course, the pro-war media won't give this 1% the coverage the stupid sensationalist crap they smother us with, they'll spend hours a day talking about bank robbers and police chases, but none on the crimes they should be talking about all day long...:nonono::nonono: