Bush admin did not lie a thousand times about Iraq war - only 935 times.

[DetlefK]

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/01/23/bush.iraq/

Excerpt:

"President Bush and his top aides publicly made 935 false statements about the security risk posed by Iraq in the two years following September 11, 2001, according to a study released Tuesday by two nonprofit journalism groups.

"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," reads an overview of the examination, conducted by the Center for Public Integrity and its affiliated group, the Fund for Independence in Journalism.

According to the study, Bush and seven top officials -- including Vice President Dick Cheney, former Secretary of State Colin Powell and then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice -- made 935 false statements about Iraq during those two years."





http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/12/leadup-iraq-war-timeline

1/30/01 : Saddam's removal is top item of Bush's inaugural national security meeting. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill later recalls, "It was all about finding a way to do it. The president saying, 'Go find me a way to do this.'"

2/24/01 : Saddam "has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction."—Secretary of State Colin Powell

3/5/01 : Pentagon produces document titled "Foreign Suitors for Iraqi Oilfield Contracts" for Cheney's task force. Includes a map of areas for potential exploration.

9/11/01 : Al Qaeda attacks. Minutes taken by a Rumsfeld aide five hours later: "Best info fast. Judge whether good enough [to] hit SH [Saddam Hussein] @ same time. Not only UBL [Usama bin Laden]."

[liberal N proud]

1. And somehow, they are not in jail!

What's wrong with that picture?

[yellowcanine]

5. No but they all must have had to get new pants with that level of lying.

[Scuba]

13. Gotta look forward, you know?

[Euphoria]

2. For starters, they all should be obligated to visit each home of

everyone who served in the US military, whether alive or dead. And deeply apologize.
Then they can start their trip overseas to see the Iraq and all in the Middle East and do it all over again, except this time include civilians.
Then....


Yeah, I'm angry.

[malthaussen]

3. Are you kidding? It would take months to get the slime off the furniture. n/t

[samsingh]

4. kick

[lonestarnot]

6. LIARS!

[niyad]

7. k and r and bookmarking again for handy reference.

[malaise]

8. K & R

for truth.

Lock up the war criminals

[Spitfire of ATJ]

9. Condi was #1 when it came to out and out lies....

Republicans had the nerve to accuse anyone who challenged her of racism.

[reddread]

10. Colin Powell did the big move

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niger_uranium_forgeries

and that, after being publically rebuffed by a dozen Republican movers and shakers as his potential run for POTUS was all the news in advance of his book tour in 95.

He earned that FCC job for his kid, no two ways about it.
With all that My Lai practice, i suppose sleep wasnt a challenge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Lai_Massacre

[Martin Eden]

11. Aluminum Tubes & Mushroom Clouds

Our foremost experts in centrifuge technology knew the aluminum tubes were designed for conventional rockets (which Iraq was allowed to have) and very ill suited for processing uranium for nuclear weaponds. neverthless, the Bush cabal leaked a story to Judith Miller of the NY Times that Saddam was acquiring aluminum tubes for nukes, then when the paper broke the story to the public Condi went on a prominent Sunday morning news talk show and asserted the tubes were "really only suited" for nukes and raised the spectre of "mushroom clouds" over American cities.

It was one of many blatant lies that led to war, and the perpetrators have entirely gotten away with it.

[d_legendary1]

12. Just a few short of a thousand, huh?

Makes those people who say that they lied a thousand times liars themselves, don't they?