237 Administration Lies - Worse then Watergate !

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237 Administration Lies - " Worse then Watergate " !

 

 

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237 Administration Lies

 

237 Documented Administration Lies to Public, Congress, About Iraq

'Threat,' bin Laden Ties

President Bush and Administration Officials have offered 237 specific

claims that intelligence had established not only a threat from Saddam

Hussein, but a threat that his ''Weapons of Mass Destruction'' might

be given to terrorists. Additionally, the Administration mentioned

''Saddam Hussein'' and ''9/11'' within a few words of each other over

100 times, falsely associating the two in the public's mind. [see col. 3]

 

Consequently, even as late as Election Day 2004, a huge majority of

Republicans, and a large minority of Democrats and Independents

believed one, if not more, of three false things: Saddam had WMD;

Saddam was working with al-Qaeda; Saddam was connected to 9/11.

 

In other words, most Americans voted believing that Bush had been

acting to protect us from threats, when in fact those threats were

known to be either ''weak'' or non-existent by the Administration. To

this day, a majority of Americans believe one of these three false

things, while huge minorities believe the other two. Nobody in the

rest of the world outside of the U.S. does, or ever did.

 

Our Press, however, seems puzzled, though not particularly worried or

curious, when informed of this fact for the first time. Most,

especially Editors, explain this with ''This doesn't reflect on us.

We're marketing Great Journalism. Americans are just genetically

stupider than the rest of humanity.''

 

Had the Administration (or the U.S. Press) ever demanded unbiased

intelligence, the Iraq-as-threat scenario would have collapsed, and

the attack on Iraq would not have been possible. Instead, a

''special'' intelligence unit--war advocates all--was created. This

group revived discredited ''evidence'' which was then offered to the

American people as ''proof.''

 

Numerous speeches, ''news'' show interviews, and the ''State of the

Union'' speech to Congress were used to push the deceptive claims.

Here are a few of those statements, with the remaining 228 also

available at the websites above:

 

''Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the

materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX

nerve agent.''--State of the Union Address, 1/28/2003

 

''U.S. intelligence indicates that Saddam Hussein had upwards of

30,000 munitions capable of delivering chemical agents.''--State of

the Union Address, 1/28/2003

 

''We have also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing

fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to

disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas.''--State

of the Union Address, 1/28/2003

 

''Evidence from intelligence sources, secret communications and

statements by people now in custody reveal that Saddam Hussein aids

and protects terrorists, including members of Al Qaeda.''--State of

the Union Address, 1/28/2003

 

''Our intelligence sources tell us that he (Saddam) has attempted to

purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons

production.''--State of the Union Address, 1/28/2003

 

''Satellite photographs reveal that Iraq is rebuilding facilities at

[past nuclear] sites.''--Bush speech to the nation, 10/7/2002

 

''The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently

sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.''--State of the

Union Address, 1/28/2003

 

''We know he's been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear

weapons, and we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear

weapons.''--VP Dick Cheney, ''Meet the Press'' 3/16/2003

 

''We gave him a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn't let

them in.''--Bush Press Conference, 7/14/2003

 

237 Lies (See Searchable DataBase)

http://democrats.reform.house.gov/IraqOnTheRecord/

http://hgrm.ctsg.com/index.asp

http://www.sourcewatch.org/wiki.phtml?title=Bush_lies_and_deceptions

 

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The Downing Street Memo - Time On Their Side —Ted Lang, Mon May 30 22:26

 

* May 31, 2005 - Dear Secretary Rumsfeld: —Rep. John Conyers, Jr.,

Mon May 30 23:41

o RAF bombing raids tried to goad Saddam into war —Rep. John

Conyers, Jr., Tue May 31 12:54

* " Thanks for the Memories " Video: Whole History of Saddam

—blueridge, Mon May 30 23:25

o Myths About Israel, Iran-Iraq War, Saddam —Nita Renfrew,

Tue May 31 00:57

 

 

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lot of others. . .they send forth a ripple of hope, and crossing each

other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those

ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of

oppression and resistance. "

- Robert F. Kennedy

 

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