White House Caught in Web of Deceptions

Confronted with the 9/11 Commission's report this week, which stated there was no collaborative relationship between al Qaeda and Saddam, the White House refuses to admit to misleading the public. President Bush said, "This administration never said that the 9/11 attacks were orchestrated between Saddam and al Qaeda. We did say there were numerous contacts between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda." But he is playing semantic games which distort undisputable facts. Top officials in the Bush administration – including the president and the vice president – have repeatedly cited a collaborative relationship - not just contacts - between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda as a justification for invading Iraq. Now, after months of careful study, the bi-partisan commission investigating 9/11 says there is no credible evidence to support that claim. But instead of taking responsibility for their actions, the administration has continued to weave a web of deception. (See for yourself: Check out the American Progress Claim vs. Fact database for more statements the White House has made to push the misleading al Qaeda/Saddam theory.)

BUSH AND CHENEY TIED IRAQ TO 9/11: Time and time again, the administration did link Iraq and the terrorist attacks of 9/11. Vice President Cheney was still spinning the myth yesterday; asked if Iraq was involved in the Sept. 11 attack, he replied, "We don't know. You know, what the commission said is they can't find any evidence of that." On Meet the Press, Cheney said Iraq was the "geographic base of the terrorists who had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11." Announcing major combat was over in Iraq in May 2003, President Bush said, "the battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that began on September the 11th, 2001." Even going into the invasion of Iraq, "Bush and Cheney…sought to tie Iraq specifically to the 9/11 attacks. In a letter to Congress on March 19, 2003 -- the day the war in Iraq began -- Bush said that the war was permitted under legislation authorizing force against those who 'planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.'"

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and our TV bound brothers and sisters remain ignorant.

tonight. As usual, he was great!

for telling the truth and asking the hard questions. The sad part? He's just doing his job--the way it's meant to be instead of rolling over and playing stupid like the rest of the press.

those ads must come and soon.

do not understand where they get the chutzpa to talk this line of BS. They are like three-year olds who swear up and down that it was someone else that tried to flush the entire roll of toilet paper down the toilet all at once. I have come to the conclusion that many people who supported Bush and this administration, who believed them, and who put their faith in them simply can not come to terms with having been played for fools. This includes many in the media who championed Bush after 9/11 and in the lead up to the war. It may be viewed by many who were duped as a sign of personal weakness, as if they had been conned into buying something on TV that turned out to be useless or overpriced.

You can fool some of the people all the time,
and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.
-- George W. Bush (spoken at a Washington Dinner, March 2001)

he really said that. asshole. when he was trying to say fool me once, probably started saying it this way and got stuck and couldnt get himself all stuck. asshole. did i say asshole

children nor innocently duped. They are the Brown Shirts.

They do not care about anything except acquiring power for those who they "believe" are worthy of the Cowboy Honor of ruling the world; who will then rule in John Wayne Miraculous Cowboydomness.

This sentence exposes the chimp's* latest.

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In a letter to Congress on March 19, 2003 -- the day the war in Iraq began -- Bush said that the war was permitted under legislation authorizing force against those who 'planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.'

complete and total failure. Just amazing what he and his administration can do and get away with it . . .


A Pathetic Excuse for a pResident - Screw Him . . .