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Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
Sat Feb 21, 2015, 08:55 PM Feb 2015

935 Lies. Two Wars. A Million Deaths. One Trillion Dollars. ISIS. Brian Williams?



http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/National_News_2/Report_documents_lies_leading_to_Iraq_war_4378.shtml


It also appears that the Bush administration is using the same tactics to build support for a war against Iran. U.S. news media trumpeted a recent encounter between U.S. warships and Iranian army speed boats in the Gulf of Hormuz. Within days the Hormuz story crumbled.

WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Lies. Lies. Lies. President George W. Bush and seven of his administration’s top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Colin Powell, then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, made at least 935 false statements in the two years following September 11, 2001, to lead the United States into its invasion and occupation of Iraq.
Now nearly 4,000 U.S. servicemen are dead, billions of dollars have been spent, the domestic economy lurches toward recession, and the U.S. has suffered an astounding loss of credibility abroad.

It also appears that the Bush administration is using the same tactics to build support for a war against Iran. U.S. news media trumpeted a recent encounter between U.S. warships and Iranian army speed boats in the Gulf of Hormuz. Mr. Bush blasted Iran for acting dangerously and labeled the Islamic nation the world’s leading sponsor of terror.

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Article is from 2008.... Could have been written today!
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935 Lies. Two Wars. A Million Deaths. One Trillion Dollars. ISIS. Brian Williams? (Original Post) Fred Sanders Feb 2015 OP
Not everyone believed those lies at the time, they were fairly obvious Fumesucker Feb 2015 #1
Priorities. redwitch Feb 2015 #2
Totally. And they all walk free, to this very hour. calimary Feb 2015 #3
and fox shrews goes untainted....... spanone Feb 2015 #4
I wish it were a Law that the American People had to take 3 hours a week... BlueJazz Feb 2015 #5
Here is a new one on Bilbo - claimed he was a pro-recruited punter on his college team. College had no team. Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #6
oooohhh...this is juicy. Thank you ! BlueJazz Feb 2015 #7

Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)
1. Not everyone believed those lies at the time, they were fairly obvious
Sat Feb 21, 2015, 09:01 PM
Feb 2015

It was Inevitable that some people would believe though, the Right Wing has fooled a lot of people who aren't too sharp and haven't had any experience with their Vastly Conspiratorial ways.

calimary

(81,323 posts)
3. Totally. And they all walk free, to this very hour.
Sat Feb 21, 2015, 09:16 PM
Feb 2015

Collecting their honorary degrees and big-ticket speakers' fees and publishing deals and talking-head appointments.

They have not paid for what they've done. Brian Williams gets sent to the deep freeze for six months without pay for padding and embroidering the truth. But his misrepresentations didn't get anybody killed. Unlike this band of thugs, liars, cheats, and remote-control murderers.

 

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)
5. I wish it were a Law that the American People had to take 3 hours a week...
Sat Feb 21, 2015, 10:38 PM
Feb 2015

...and watch all the Bushes, Fox News, Newt Gingrich and all the other bags of shit spout their opinions about 9/11 the last decade or so.

I'd even pay for the scaffolding and gallows.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
6. Here is a new one on Bilbo - claimed he was a pro-recruited punter on his college team. College had no team.
Sat Feb 21, 2015, 10:44 PM
Feb 2015
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