Tuesday, April 13, 2004
CLAIM vs. FACT: Bush's Press Conference Tonight
CLAIM:
"But there was nobody in our government, at least, and I don't think the prior government that could envision flying airplanes into buildings on such a massive scale."
- George W. Bush, 4/13/04
FACT:
In the very same press conference, President Bush said "part of
had to do with the Genoa G-8 conference I was going to attend" in 2001, where he was warned that Islamic terrorists were potentially plotting to fly airplanes into buildings.
CLAIM:
"The oil revenues, they're bigger than we thought they would be at this point in time."
- George W. Bush, 4/13/04
FACT:
Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said before the war that "we are dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon" with Bush administration officials claiming "that Iraq's oil revenues would be $20 billion to $30 billion a year." Those oil revenues are now only "running at a rate of about $14 billion a year" while Americans taxpayers are shelling out billions for reconstruction.
- NY Times, 10/6/03
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(from Eschaton)
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