The Bush administration has repeatedly lied to support the war
From the time that the Bush administration began pushing
for war in Iraq they have repeatedly made press statements that have proven
to be false and statements made on unsupported information. This has been done to inspire a feeling of fear among the
public with the hope that people would support the war out of a fear of
imminent attack from Saddam Hussein.
In discussing the resignation of Rand Beers from the
National Security Council James Bamford, author and
intelligence expert, said that:
"There is a predominant belief in the
intelligence community that an invasion of Iraq will cause more terrorism
than it will prevent. There is also a tremendous amount of embarrassment by
intelligence professionals that there have been so many lies out of the
administration -- by the president, (Vice President Dick) Cheney and
(Secretary of State Colin) Powell -- over Iraq." - March 19,
2003
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/attack/statement/2003/0319bossresigns.htm
Below is a short list of some of the lies that have been
told in order to support the war (linked are both original news stories as
they appeared and new pieces after they were debunked ):
- There will be no war if Saddam leaves. This is false. The plan
was to invade even if Saddam did leave. The
premise for invasion was to be searching for weapons of mass destruction by
American forces. So it didn’t matter if
Saddam left or not, the invasion would still have taken
place.
http://www.fair.org/press-releases/ultimatum.htm
- The Powell paper that was sited
as a source of information for an address to the UN Security Council, and
the world, which made statements about the Iraqi regime and its involvement
with terrorist organizations and weapons of mass destruction, was later
exposed as a paper written by a graduate student from
California. Prior to making the statement to
the UN Powell said: "My colleagues, every
statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources. These are
not assertions. What we're giving you are facts and conclusions based on
solid intelligence."
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/02/07/sprj.irq.uk.dossier/index.html
http://www.channel4.com/news/2003/02/week_1/06_dossier.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/2736149.stm
http://truthout.org/docs_02/020803A.htm
- The claim that was made that put America on
“code orange” and sent millions to the store to buy duct tape
and plastic for their windows was later exposed as baseless. The claim was that there was a “significant
threat” of a massive chemical weapons attack on American soil
“soon”. This news terrified the
country and had many running for cover.
Within a day, though, it was later exposed as baseless. Of course there was no problem spreading the lie to
promote a sense of fear in the public.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,78593,00.html
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/02/17/timep.edge.tm/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/02/14/homeland.security/index.html
- The claim that Iraq had a fleet of unmanned
aircraft that could possibly reach America and deliver weapons of mass
destruction was quickly circulated in the press, it too turned out to be a
lie.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/wnt/DailyNews/iraq_reality021008.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,79450,00.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/10/08/wbush08.xml
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/2002-10-24-oped-bamford_x.htm
- Bush sited a report that stated that the
International Atomic Energy Agency said the Iraqis were six months away
from developing atomic weapons. There was
actually no report at all. This was pure
fabrication.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0927-08.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A51871-2002Sep7?language=printer
http://way.nu/archives/000422.html
This is just a short list of lies told by the Bush
administration that are directly related to this current war,
“Operation Iraqi Freedom”.
For a more extensive list of the Bush lies to support
the war see:
http://www.politicalstrategy.org/2003_03_10_weblog_archive.htm
Update 12/2/2004:
237 Misleading Statements by the Bush administration
Iraq On the Record: The Administration's Public Statements on
Iraq
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