Wednesday, January 23, 2008

935 false statements + Iraq War = White House.


Crooks and Liars:


Bill Moyers did a wonderful job of exposing the trumped up case the WH made for war with Iraq with a great special called “Buying the War” which focused on the the media and their role in this travesty. Obviously this new report doesn’t come as a shock to anyone in the liberal blogosphere, but I guess if FOX News runs an AP story about these claims then I guess Bill O’Reilly can’t say it’s “a hit job from the liberal media and NBC.”


Sorry, I forgot who I was dealing with for a moment.



A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.



The study counted 935 false statements in the two-year period. It found that in speeches, briefings, interviews and other venues, Bush and administration officials stated unequivocally on at least 532 occasions that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or was trying to produce or obtain them or had links to Al Qaeda or both…

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Many of these chemicals are classified as “Dual Use,”

http://www.wisconsinproject.org/countries/iraq/Iraq-thwarts.html
http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/report/2004/isg-final-report/isg-final-report_vol2_delivery-anx-c.htm

Anonymous said...

935 episodes of false statements........no impeachment


1 false statement about an intern=impeachment

how many thousands of dead?

1 interns reputation ruined

hmmm........the GOP has bought their way out of a lot