| FALSE PRETENCES |
| CHARLES LEWIS and MARK READING-SMITH - The Center for Public Integrity. |
| (On The Center for Public Integrity site there is very carefully compiled documentation to support these claims.) |
| http://www.publicintegrity.org/WarCard/ |
| "Following 9/11, President Bush and seven top officials of his administration waged a carefully orchestrated campaign of misinformation about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq." President George W. Bush and seven of his administration's top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, made at least 935 false statements in the two years following September 11, 2001, about the national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Nearly five years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, an exhaustive examination of the record shows 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. On at least 532 separate occasions (in speeches, briefings, interviews, testimony, and the like), Bush and these three key officials, along with Secretary of State Colin Powell, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, and White House press secretaries Ari Fleischer and Scott McClellan, stated unequivocally that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (or was trying to produce or obtain them), links to Al Qaeda, or both. This concerted effort was the underpinning of the Bush administration's case for war. |
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Comments: 11
Somehow, we have to try to extricate ourselves from the mess they have created.
People are easily deceived. However, some are not and we have much quality information available to be informed and those who choose can access it.
I don't normally listen to Air America Radio but today's show was quite good:
Hartmann