A Report on Bush’s Lies Regarding Iraq

There was a report in today's newspaper (January 23rd, 2008) by two non-profit journalism organizations that claim Bush and Company made hundreds of false statements that led to the Iraq war. The Center for Public Integrity and the Fund for Independence in Journalism concluded that the lies were part of a concentrated campaign to fool the American public and involve America in a pre-emptive war.

They identified 935 lies in the two-year period following the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Bush and his cronies made at least 532 statements claiming Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) and ties to Al-Qaida, which have been unequivocally proven false. Even Bush has admitted this, but has attempted to blame our security organizations, which is also a lie.

The organizations named top administration officials, including Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Paul Wolfowitz and two White House press secretaries. Bush topped the list of liars with 259 false statements, including 231 about WMDs and 28 about Iraq and Al-Qaida. Powell lied 244 times about the WMDs. Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Lewis Libby are signers for The Project for a New American Century (PNAC), which is the Republican master plan for taking over the world.

The study was on a database containing information from over 25 government reports, books, articles, speeches and interviews. The report also blamed the American media, which published thousands of news reports and broadcasts during that period that did not challenge the administration's statements.

Dave Satre
January, 2008

Click Here to Read the Report

Other links:

The Center for Public Integrity:

http://www.publicintegrity.org

The Fund for Independence in Journalism:

http://www.tfij.org