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Center for Public Integrity Suckered Us
The Center for Public Integrity concludes in a recent study that the Bush administration deliberately lied about Iraq, in order to get public support for war. |
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The Center for Public Integrity worked with the Fund for Independence in Journalism on a study on how the Bush administration talked about Iraq between the attacks on the WTC and the war on Iraq. The conclusion: “President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from” that country.
You can read the study at the website of the CPI: here’s a direct link to the study called “Iraq: The War Card - Orchestrated Deception On The Path To War.”
The two organizations argue that “an exhaustive examination of the record shows that the statements were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses.”
President Bush, for example, made 232 false statements about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and another 28 false statements about Iraq’s links to Al Qaeda. Secretary of State Powell had the second-highest total in the two-year period, with 244 false statements about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and 10 about Iraq’s links to Al Qaeda. Rumsfeld and Fleischer each made 109 false statements, followed by Wolfowitz (with 85), Rice (with 56), Cheney (with 48), and McClellan (with 14).
Now, one could argue that they weren’t lying, they simply didn’t know better. They were mistaken. The CPI says not so: “The massive database at the heart of this project juxtaposes what President Bush and these seven top officials were saying for public consumption against what was known, or should have been known, on a day-to-day basis.”
Here’s a list with “Key False Statements.” Read it and weep.
Some blogger’s opinions:
Down With Tyranny: “Nancy Pelosi has taken impeachment off the table. She should be a defendant in the same treason trial that Bush and Cheney and their cronies face.”
Radamisto: “Named in the study along with Bush were top officials of the administration during the period studied: Vice President Dick Cheney, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and White House press secretaries Ari Fleischer and Scott McClellan.”
Corrente: “All in all, this data shows the almost complete collapse of Constitutional government (as if we didn’t know). A lawless and amoral executive was able to lie the country into a war with impunity. There were no checks and no balances.” |
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