Administration Lied Hundreds of Times About Iraq

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WASHINGTON — 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 concluded that the statements "were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses."

The study was posted Tuesday on the Web site of the Center for Public Integrity, which worked with the Fund for Independence in Journalism. White House spokesman Scott Stanzel said he could not comment on the study because he had not seen it.

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.

"It is now beyond dispute that Iraq did not possess any weapons of mass destruction or have meaningful ties to Al Qaeda," according to Charles Lewis and Mark Reading-Smith of the Fund for Independence in Journalism staff members, writing an overview of the study. "In short, the Bush administration led the nation to war on the basis of erroneous information that it methodically propagated and that culminated in military action against Iraq on March 19, 2003."

Named in the study along with Bush were top officials of the administration during the period studied: Vice President Dick Cheney, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and White House press secretaries Ari Fleischer and Scott McClellan.

Bush led with 259 false statements, 231 about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and 28 about Iraq's links to Al Qaeda, the study found. That was second only to Powell's 244 false statements about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and 10 about Iraq and Al Qaeda.

The center said the study was based on a database created with public statements over the two years beginning on Sept. 11, 2001, and information from more than 25 government reports, books, articles, speeches and interviews.

"The cumulative effect of these false statements — amplified by thousands of news stories and broadcasts — was massive, with the media coverage creating an almost impenetrable din for several critical months in the run-up to war," the study concluded.

"Some journalists — indeed, even some entire news organizations — have since acknowledged that their coverage during those prewar months was far too deferential and uncritical. These mea culpas notwithstanding, much of the wall-to-wall media coverage provided additional, 'independent' validation of the Bush administration's false statements about Iraq," it said.
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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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Ain't hindsight wonderful?
 
Ooops, sorry about the wasted trillion dollars and all those lives. We were wrong. We'll do some more research next time.
 
If you call being completely wrong "research enough".

"the danger is, is that they work in concert. The danger is, is that al Qaeda becomes an extension of Saddam's madness and his hatred and his capacity to extend weapons of mass destruction around the world.

Both of them need to be dealt with. The war on terror, you can't distinguish between al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror." - Bush

Seems not so well researched.
 
The study was posted Tuesday on the Web site of the Center for Public Integrity....
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:elaugh1:​


That George Soros funds this "center" reveals the agenda.





You would think by now that the MSM would try to spare itself some embarrassment and at least do a cursory Google search :nanabang: before casting the researchers as neutral, reliable, disinterested parties. But noooo. They dutifully published these transparent moonbat briefs for impeachment without disclosing the “nonprofit journalism organizations’” ties to BDS sugar daddy George Soros. http://michellemalkin.com/2008/01/23/msm-tools-spread-soros-propaganda/
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The danger is, is that al Qaeda becomes an extension of Saddam's madness and his hatred and his capacity to extend weapons of mass destruction around the world
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That is a reasonable conclusion to draw.
 
Now that depends on what your definition of "is" is.

I did not have sex with that woman, Miss Lewinski.

I didn't inhale.

Vince Foster committed suicide.
 
Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.

And wasn't there another study---somewhere, somewhere, now where is it----funded by Soros----you know, it also turned out to be shaped by the political biases of its' brain trust..........

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That's It!


:trippy:
 
....is that same george soros that "broke the bank" of England making hundreds of millions if not billions?



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T or F:

1. The documents recovered from the Saddam regime are fake & prove nothing

2. The so-called "moon landing" was actually a created event, filmed on a soundstage

3. 9-11 was an "inside job"
 
Cerise said:
T or F:

1. The documents recovered from the Saddam regime are fake & prove nothing

2. The so-called "moon landing" was actually a created event, filmed on a soundstage

3. 9-11 was an "inside job"
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:rofl4: again. :shrug:
 
Gonz said:
History

GRAPHIC
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I don't see anythiing there that indicates "al Qaeda becomes an extension of Saddam's madness and his hatred and his capacity to extend weapons of mass destruction around the world".

Actually history would show that he was odds with al Qaeda and was no threat "around the world".
 
spike said:
Based on what exactly?
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NEW YORK, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein kept up the illusion that he had weapons of mass destruction before 2003 because he did not think the United States would invade, an FBI agent who questioned him said.

In an interview with CBS' "60 Minutes" to be broadcast on Sunday, FBI agent George Piro describes conversations with Saddam in the months after his capture in December 2003.

Piro said Saddam, who was hanged from crimes against humanity in December 2006, wanted to maintain the image of a strong Iraq to deter Iran, its historic enemy, from hostile action.

"He told me he initially miscalculated ... President (George W.) Bush's intentions. He thought the United States would retaliate with the same type of attack as we did in 1998... a four-day aerial attack," Piro said.


Source
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:rainfrow:
 
Under the SURRENDER from the 90's, wasn't he supposed to let us know if he got rid of stuff? When he didn't, we had one option...to assume he still had it.
 
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