osarusan
30/01/2008, 4:27 AM
A report from the Center for Public Integrity (http://www.publicintegrity.org/WarCard/Default.aspx?src=home&context=overview&id=945) says that members of the Bush administration lied 935 times about the situation in Iraq.
President George W. Bush and seven of his administration's top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, made at least 935 false statements in the two years following September 11, 2001, about the national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Nearly five years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, 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.
Bush was top with 260 lies, Powell next with 254.
Some interesting examples when you scroll down the page.Some of the "lies", only turned out later to be lies, as the evidence was considered solid at the time. But in some cases members of the administration made public statements that contradicted things that the FBI/CIA/others had already told them privately.
I don't know what, if any, agenda this Center for Public Integrity has, but some the examples are pretty damning.
President George W. Bush and seven of his administration's top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, made at least 935 false statements in the two years following September 11, 2001, about the national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq. Nearly five years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, 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.
Bush was top with 260 lies, Powell next with 254.
Some interesting examples when you scroll down the page.Some of the "lies", only turned out later to be lies, as the evidence was considered solid at the time. But in some cases members of the administration made public statements that contradicted things that the FBI/CIA/others had already told them privately.
I don't know what, if any, agenda this Center for Public Integrity has, but some the examples are pretty damning.