Democrats Tally 'Misleading' Iraq Statements (237 of them)

[Khephra]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush and four top advisors made a combined 237 misleading public statements on the threat posed by Iraq, Democrats charged in a congressional report released on Tuesday.

The report compiled by Democratic staff of the House Government Reform Committee examined assertions made by Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, and national security advisor Condoleezza Rice.

The report was requested by California Rep. Henry Waxman, the most senior Democrat on the committee and a tenacious critic of some of the contracts awarded to businesses to rebuild Iraq.

``Prior to the war in Iraq, the president and his advisors repeatedly claimed that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction that jeopardized the security of the United States. The failure to discover these weapons after the war has led to questions about whether the president and his advisors were candid in describing Iraq's threat,'' the report said.

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http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/politics/politics-politics-iraq-statements.html

[Lindacooks]

1. Good for them!!

Now let's get this out into public view. And keep hammering it over and over and over and over again.

[boobooday]

2. A Searchable database of lies

Compiled by Henry Waxman:

http://www.house.gov/reform/min/features/iraq_on_the_record/

This is awesome.



http://www.wgoeshome.com

[joeunderdog]

7. Saw this last night.

Waxman for President.

[truthspeaker]

14. or at least minority leader

[wryter2000]

29. How about Majority Leader? eom

:bounce:

[calimary]

28. Waxman's MY guy. I'm so proud! He's GREAT!

I just wish he had a larger, louder, and more powerful voice. But he's GREAT! Dog-on-a-pants-leg great!

[Imalittleteapot]

8. You can download pdf of this report.

Carry it in your pocket.

[southpaw72]

25. this is so cool

searchable database!

[deek]

3. And it's reported at Yahoo news!

...waiting for your rating

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040317/pl_nm/politics_iraq_statements_dc

[radfringe]

19. 4.05 with 208 vote

You have given the news article Democrats Tally 'Misleading' Iraq Statements a rating of 5.
Its current average rating is 4.05 with 208 vote(s).

[74dodgedart]

33. Rummy video on Moveon.org

http://www.moveon.org/censure/caughtonvideo/

Rumsfeld caught in a lie

[qanda]

4. One question:

Are they still counting? Because they were sure telling some whoppers on the Sunday Morning Talk Shows.

[Roy]

5. A Job Counting Republican Lies.......

WOW!!!! Talk about job security, do they offer benefits?

[dbt]

6. Hitler Smiles

Tell a lie. Tell a Big Lie. Tell it 237 different ways. Then stand back and let the TV networks carry the ball.

:freak:
dbt
(I live in a Rogue Nation)

[UpInArms]

9. the megaphone of the fetid corporate newswhores

played each and every lie as the truth and repeated each of them no fewer than 1000 times -

we have heard these lies screamed at us at least 20,000 times - until the big lie machine has turned this nation into a mass of fools following the Pied Piper over the cliff.

:mad:

[cdeca]

10. I am shocked....

SHOCKED I tell you, that the number was only 237! ROFLMAO!

[Cooley Hurd]

11. 237 lies? Is that all?

I would've guessed a tally much, much higher.

It's been a very long time since I've heard a truthful statement come from the WH (like since 1/20/01)...

[snippy]

12. Democrats also need to do this with the small, meaningless lies.

Those lies really illustrate that Bush is the most compulsive and incessant liar in the history of American politics.

Everyone except Bush himself knows where he was during his Alabama National Guard service which was after he volunteered to go to Viet Nam and the Bush administration did not reveal the identity of a CIA operative which resulted in 2,000,000 million new jobs being created but the White House is cooperating with the 9/11 commission because democrats support terrorism and are not good Americans just as the Jews were not good Germans since the mission of the United States is to bring freedom to every single person on Earth which will cut the deficit in half if you do not count the parts of the deficits which are increasing and government spending has gone down if you do not count the increased government spending but the boxes from China were labeled "Made in USA" which resulted in 2,600,000 new jobs being created even though the $400 billion decorative medicare turkey was not labeled $525 billion and Bush's plane to Baghdad was spotted because before Saddam bought the uranium and became an urgent but not imminent threat Bush had no plans on his desk to invade Iraq since the aircraft carrier was too far offshore for the Navy to make a large enough banner to describe the WMD we have found in Iraq some of which could hit the US and some of which Saddam was giving to Osama for following Saddam's plans and using Iraqi hijackers on 9/11 but everyone got a tax cut which created 3,000,000 new jobs and allowed Iraqi oil revenue to pay for the cost of the reconstruction of Iraq after the invasion by a small number of troops who would be greeted with floral program related activities because Bush and Rice did not ignore the August 6, 2001 intelligence briefing warning of the upcoming 9/11 attacks and that is why Bush who is responsible for good economic numbers but not bad economic numbers wrote the poem that he did not write blaming Laura for dropping the dog.

There is no subject so serious, somber, or shallow that Bush will not lie about it. The only other option is not to lie and that is something which Bush can not do.

Ridiculing Bush about his incessant and compulsive lying needs to become common, especially among people who do not follow politics.

FIRE THE LIAR

[sistersofmercy]

13. You are absolutely correct, Snippy

Bravo!

[wryter2000]

30. "floral program related activities" LMAO eom

:yourock:

[Bandit]

31. Right ~ Is Laura really just "That Lump in the Bed"?

Tell us Mr. pResident is your wife just a lump in the bed or is that a lie? Which is it? Who wrote her the Intimate Love Poem ? First it was her loving husband then she recanted and said he really didn't write it so who did?

[truthspeaker]

15. imagine if just one of those lies had been about a blowjob from an intern

impeachment time!

[Just Me]

16. I wonder if such a tally is sufficient proof of covert propaganda?

I really would like to take a looksee at that law prohibiting the government from engaging in covert propaganda. I didn't even know it existed.

[Mokito]

17. Liar, Liar,

WORLD ON FIRE!

[tlcandie]

18. And these 237 misleading statements are only for a certain period

surrounding the Iraq invasion and NOTHING else! So it is by far a VERY low number and ONLY surrounds *, Rummy, Cheney, Rice and Powell. Numerous other liars are missing!

EDIT: The graphs in the pdf are amazing visuals!!!

[radfringe]

20. misleading mis-statements from the mis-administration?

I'm so surprised.... NOT

[rocktivity]

21. Bah da da da da, I'm lovin' it!

I went to bed with a sour taste in my mouth due to this story about Dems considering signing a resolution that the world is safer with Saddam out of power. But I get to start my day with this--cool!

P.S. Hey, think of what Howard Stern could do with this list!

:headbang:
rocknation

[rocktivity]

22. Translation:

"I can say that the president and his advisers spoke clearly to the American people and the world and their statements accurately reflected the intelligence that was available to them," the spokesman said.

You lied your butts off and fabricated the intelligence when the CIA didn't come up with any you liked!

:headbang:
rocknation

[kentuck]

23. It would have been easier for them to tally the "truths" told

I can't think of even one time they told the truth about anything??

[74dodgedart]

24. "Bush, Wrong on National Security"

This kicks the latest Bush attack ad's in the butt..

[GinaMaria]

26. really good to put a number on it

and such a large to boot. I hope it gets to the point where all any one has to say 237. It should become the new lingo for someone who lies bigtime. "He/she is a 237." "He/she 237ed no one trusts him or her now."

I think I'll start using it today. "Are you 237ing me?"

[jackstraw45]

27. EXCELLENT

Waxman has been a leader on calling the administration out on their crooked ways.

We NEED to spread this around.

Rep. Waxman needs our support.

[Ravy]

32. Waxman appears to be missing some.. hope the list grows.

For instance, "imminent" only pulled up Powell's lie, not Rumsfield's (the one he was recently called on).

[THUNDER HANDS]

34. that's all?

I would have guessed it'd be in the thousands by now.

[WorkingClassTV]

35. Henry Waxman is very good

he would make a great minority/majority leader