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http://billmoyers.com/2014/06/26/iraq-the-war-card/Iraq: The War Card
June 26, 2014
As part of its investigation into the false statements made by top Bush administration officials leading up to the Iraq war, the Center for Public Integrity has just released an interactive database where you can search who said what, when.
The Center examined every public pronouncement by President Bush and seven top officials on the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and on the links between Iraq and Al Qaeda. They concluded that eight individuals President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Colin Powell, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and White House Press Secretaries Ari Fleischer and Scott McClellan made 935 false statements from September 11, 2001 to September 11, 2003.
Who had the biggest problem with the truth? That honor goes to President Bush, who made 232 false statements about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and 28 false statements about Iraqs connections with Al Qaeda. The runner-up, Colin Powell, made 244 false statements about weapons of mass destruction and 10 about Al Qaeda links.
Search the interactive 935 Iraq War false statements database by clicking on an individuals photo to see a timeline, as well as the statements in full.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)See where that got us. So many investigations should have happened to Bush/Cheney.
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)Octafish
(55,745 posts)They. Lied. America. Into. War. An illegal, immoral, unnecessary and disastrous war.
And while thousands of America's finest and at least half a million innocent Iraqis are dead, Bush remains free to draw puppies and shower scenes.
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indepat
(20,899 posts)U.S. law, international law, international treaty, humanity, human decency, economic and fiscal realities, the whole schmere, no matter how damaging and destructive. TPTB require a Democratic president be thwarted in almost every endeavor. This, folks, is life in Amurika in the new (PNAC) American century where the plutocrats and large corporations are to slop mightily at the public trough and the infrastructure, public health, the standard of living for the masses, and the general welfare of most Americans can go to hell.
Mc Mike
(9,111 posts)hughee99
(16,113 posts)or did they need to know it was untrue (or do we need to be able to prove they knew it was untrue) when they said it?