The following list is amazing. And true! The search for WMD in Iraq officially ended shortly before Christmas 2004 but none of the people quoted below will admit they were lying or that they were wrong. What does that say about their character, their judgment or their qualification to lead?
Below is a chronological history of these lies and the people who told them - everyone of them were aware they were either lying or exaggerating to the American people and to the world at the time. Even if you argue they "thought" what they were saying "might" be true, they didn't bother to qualify those statements as pure guesswork and convenient supposition designed to support the illegal invasion of another country. They were adamant that they were telling us the truth and as leaders essentially placed their integrity and the public's confidence in them as leaders on the line.
These lies represent the biggest and most costly lies of this century (so far). They have been recorded and are awaiting truthful historians to record the effects on our world. The claims that these lies were based upon information provided by our intelligence agencies is disputed by many within these agencies claiming that their recommendations were not heeded or were ignored by an administration drunk with power and one staffed by people that were predetermined to invade Iraq prior to Bush becoming president. There are no excuses and no redeeming consequences that can absolve these people from their actions and only the most dishonest historians will attempt to glorify another shameful and misguided military conflict that looks and smells like Viet Nam but with the potential for much more disastrous and long term results.
Any student of middle east history, Egypt, Israel and the Islamic culture could have easily predicted what the results of this action would likely be given the history of conflict between the Sunnis, Shiites and Kurds. To pretend there was no other way to remove Saddam was the first of many lies and misrepresentations. The idea that American troops would be greeted as liberators was pure fantasy to even those with only a casual familiarity with the world of the middle east. Any Israeli, Palestinian, Pakistani, or Egyptian street vendor could have told them what to expect.
Nearly every one of the quotes below are egregious, boldface lies. They span 2 1/2 years from 2/1/200 to 7/9/2003. My comments are in parentheses.
THE SETUP - "How the United States should react if Iraq acquired WMD. The first line of defense...should be a clear and classical statement of deterrence-- if they do acquire WMD, their weapons will be unusable because any attempt to use them will bring national obliteration." - Condoleeza Rice, US National Security Advisor - January/February 2000 issue of Foreign Affairs 2/1/2000
(Oh, that really makes sense to threaten a nation with obliteration. This blustery threat was made a full 18 months prior to 9/11/2001. Tell me that doesn't sound like the chest beating bluster of Kim Jong-IL or the threats of Khrushchev. Is this rhetoric by Rice the setup for invading Iraq which was planned long before 9/11? But before going to war they had to move public opinion and what greater way than instilling fear of an attack on America? And then 9/11 happened. What a stroke of luck. Remember Bush chuckling that he had hit the Trifecta?)
LIE - "We are greatly concerned about any possible linkup between terrorists and regimes that have or seek weapons of mass destruction...In the case of Saddam Hussein, we've got a dictator who is clearly pursuing and already possesses some of these weapons. A regime that hates America and everything we stand for must never be permitted to threaten America with weapons of mass destruction. " - Dick Cheney, Vice President - Detroit, Fund-Raiser 6/20/2002
LIE - "Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction." - Dick Cheney, Vice President - Speech to VFW National Convention 8/26/2002
(A clear lie - there was plenty of doubt cast by the CIA, the UN Inspection Team and other Saddam watchers.)
LIE - "There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest." Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary - Response to Question From Press 9/6/2002
LIE - "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." - Condoleeza Rice, US National Security Advisor - CNN Late Edition 9/8/2002
LIE - "Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons." - George W. Bush, President - Speech to UN General Assembly 9/12/2002
(Not that "we suspect" or "we are led to believe" but this claim is stated absolutely.)
LIE - "Iraq has stockpiled biological and chemical weapons, and is rebuilding the facilities used to make more of those weapons. We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons -- the very weapons the dictator tells us he does not have." - George W. Bush, President - Radio Address 10/5/2002
(These sources were most likely Chalabi, his relative Curveball and the other expatriates that were being paid for information and expected to get positions of power once Saddam was defeated. Only a fool would not be cautious concerning anything they told you. I guess that explains it.)
LIE - "The Iraqi regime...possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons. We know that the regime has produced thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas." - George W. Bush, President - Cincinnati, Ohio Speech 10/7/2002
LIE - "And surveillance photos reveal that the regime is rebuilding facilities that it had used to produce chemical and biological weapons." - George W. Bush, President - Cincinnati, Ohio Speech 10/7/2002
LIE - "After eleven years during which we have tried containment, sanctions, inspections, even selected military action, the end result is that Saddam Hussein still has chemical and biological weapons and is increasing his capabilities to make more. And he is moving ever closer to developing a nuclear weapon." -George W. Bush, President - Cincinnati, Ohio Speech 10/7/2002
LIE - "We've also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas." - George W. Bush, President - Cincinnati, Ohio Speech 10/7/2002
(This is an obscene lie meant to scare Americans into believing they could be attacked in the US. Why would an American President repeat this claim which was considered by almost all other nation's intelligence people and even many within our own CIA as false? )
LIE - "Iraq, despite UN sanctions, maintains an aggressive program to rebuild the infrastructure for its nuclear, chemical, biological, and missile programs. In each instance, Iraq's procurement agents are actively working to obtain both weapons-specific and dual-use materials and technologies critical to their rebuilding and expansion efforts, using front companies and whatever illicit means are at hand." _ John Bolton, Undersecretary of State for Arms Control - Speech to the Hudson Institute11/1/2002
(This false claim is from the man who now represents this nation to the United Nations. Who among other nations will ever trust this man?)
LIE- "We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material -- whether from a foreign source or by securing the materials to build an indigenous fissile material capability -- it could fabricate a nuclear weapon within one year. It has rebuilt its civilian chemical infrastructure and renewed production of chemical warfare agents, probably including mustard, sarin, and VX. It actively maintains all key aspects of its offensive BW program." John Bolton, Undersecretary of State for Arms Control - Speech to the Hudson Institute 11/1/2002
(Same comment as for preceding lie)
LIE - "Iraq could decide on any given day to provide biological or chemical weapons to a terrorist group or to individual terrorists...The war on terror will not be won until Iraq is completely and verifiably deprived of weapons of mass destruction." - Dick Cheney, Vice President - Denver, Address To Air National Guard 12/1/2002
( Although they didn't exist prior to the "war" Iraq is now "deprived" of WMD but has the "war on terror" been won as Cheney said it would be?)
LIE- "If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading the world." - Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary - Press Briefing 12/2/2002
(Who now appears to have misled the world?)
LIE - "The president of the United States and the secretary of defense would not assert as plainly and bluntly as they have that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction if it was not true, and if they did not have a solid basis for saying it." - Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary - Response to Question From Press 12/4/2002
(By Fleischer's own admission he has lied. He said they would not say it if it wasn't true - and it was not true - he lied - they lied!)
LIE - "We know for a fact that there are weapons there." Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary - Press Briefing 1/9/2003
LIE - "I am absolutely convinced, based on the information that's been given to me, that the weapon of mass destruction which can kill more people than an atomic bomb -- that is, biological weapons -- is in the hands of the leadership of Iraq." - Bill Frist, Senate Majority Leader - MSNBC Interview 1/10/2003
(Frist was also convinced that Terry Schaivo was not brain dead - and now he wants the American voters to elect him as president - someone so easily misled, who rushes to judgment without studying the facts and is guilty of careless decision making. God forbid!)
LIE - "What is unique about Iraq compared to, I would argue, any other country in the world, in this juncture, is the exhaustion of diplomacy thus far, and, No. 2, this intersection of weapons of mass destruction." Bill Frist, Senate Majority Leader - NewsHour Interview 1/22/2003
LIE - "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. Our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production." - George W. Bush, President - State of the Union Address 1/28/2003
LIE -"Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent." - George W. Bush, President - State of the Union Address 1/28/2003
(They thought this because the US provided Saddam these agents to use against Iran - the same US that is adamantly opposed to the spread and use of biological and chemical warfare by other nations.)
LIE - "We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more." - Colin Powell, Secretary of State - Remarks to UN Security Council 2/5/2003
LIE - "There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more. And he has the ability to dispense these lethal poisons and diseases in ways that can cause massive death and destruction. If biological weapons seem too terrible to contemplate, chemical weapons are equally chilling." - Colin Powell, Secretary of State -Addresses the U.N. Security Council 2/5/2003
(Powell's marching orders were to scare Americans and other nations into supporting the illegal invasion of Iraq)
LIE - "In Iraq, a dictator is building and hiding weapons that could enable him to dominate the Middle East and intimidate the civilized world -- and we will not allow it." - George W. Bush, President - Speech to the American Enterprise Institute 2/26/2003
(Guess who it is who wants to dominate the middle-east and who the rest of the civilized world considers dangerous and intimidating? Just guess!)
LIE - "If Iraq had disarmed itself, gotten rid of its weapons of mass destruction over the past 12 years, or over the last several months since (UN Resolution) 1441 was enacted, we would not be facing the crisis that we now have before us . . . But the suggestion that we are doing this because we want to go to every country in the Middle East and rearrange all of its pieces is not correct." - Colin Powell, Secretary of State - Interview with Radio France International 2/28/2003
(This is the lie of all lies. This poor fool embarrassed himself and lost any credibility he had with the American people. He was a pawn of the Bush administration.)
LIE - "I am not eager to send young Americans into harm's way in Iraq, or to see innocent people killed or hurt in military operations. Given all of the facts and circumstances known to us, however, I am convinced that if we wait, a threat will continue to materialize in Iraq that could cause incalculable damage to world peace in general, and to the United States in particular." - Bill Frist, Senate Majority Leader - Letter to Future of Freedom Foundation 3/1/2003
(I repeat, you were also convinced that after seeing a video of Terry Schaivo that she was not brain dead and was responding to questions, etc. You are a dangerous man to be in a leadership position.)
LIE - "Iraq is a grave threat to this nation. It desires to acquire and use weapons of mass terror and is run by a despot with a proven record of willingness to use them. Iraq has had 12 years to comply with UN requirements for disarmament and has failed to do so. The president is right to say it's time has run out." Bill Frist, Senate Majority Leader - Senate Speech 3/7/2003
(Scott Ritter, Hans Blix and all the other weapons inspectors clearly concluded there was no evidence of WMD or that Saddam had not complied with UN demands.)
LIE - "So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? . . . I think our judgment has to be clearly not." - Colin Powell, Secretary of State - Remarks to UN Security Council 3/7/2003
LIE -"Getting rid of Saddam Hussein's regime is our best inoculation. Destroying once and for all his weapons of disease and death is a vaccination for the world." - Bill Frist, Senate Majority Leader - Washington Post op-ed 3/16/2003
(Frist obviously thought his training as a doctor allowed him to use this pathetic play on words to appear clever. What an arrogant jerk this guy is.)
LIE - "Let's talk about the nuclear proposition for a minute. We know that based on intelligence, that Saddam has been very, very good at hiding these kinds of efforts. He's had years to get good at it and we know he has been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons. And we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons." - Dick Cheney, Vice President - Meet The Press 3/16/2003
LIE - "Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised." - George W. Bush, President - Address to the Nation 3/17/2003
(Obscene scare tactics. If any of the agencies attempted to gather intelligence from George W Bush they would come up empty handed. He possesses no intelligence.)
LIE - "The United States . . . is now at war so we will not ever see what terrorists could do if supplied with weapons of mass destruction by Saddam Hussein." - Bill Frist, Senate Majority Leader - Senate Debate 3/20/2003
(Brilliant! Another revelation from The Mad Hatter. Frist sounds disappointed but he should not despair. Now that the number of terrorists have been increased exponentially the chances for us seeing what they could do are a thousand times greater thanks to him and his colleagues. On the other hand if the American people are wise, we will not ever see what Frist could do if he became president. Pray with me!)
LIE - "Well, there is no question that we have evidence and information that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical particularly . . . all this will be made clear in the course of the operation, for whatever duration it takes." - Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary - Press Briefing 3/21/2003
( We might be in for quite a wait. It might take longer than it takes OJ to find the murderers of his wife.)
LIE - "There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. And . . . as this operation continues, those weapons will be identified, found, along with the people who have produced them and who guard them." - General Tommy Franks, Commander in Chief Central Command - Press Conference 3/22/2003
(Gosh, if they just happened to find some Iraqis guarding something in Iraq wouldn't they be suspicious by now?)
LIE - "One of our top objectives is to find and destroy the WMD. There are a number of sites." Victoria Clark, Pentagon Spokeswoman - Press Briefing 3/22/2003
(Well here ya go! This is obviously someone who knows where those sites are - and how many! Someone should have given Bush her phone number.)
LIE - "I have no doubt we're going to find big stores of weapons of mass destruction." - Kenneth Adelman, Defense Policy Board member - Washington Post, p. A27 3/23/2003
LIE - "We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat." - Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense - ABC Interview 3/30/2003
(Aha! Rumsfeld knows where they are! You notice he covered the four compass points . . . . . . somewhat. Since he knew where they were he should be fired for not sharing this information with the rest. Maybe Bush and Rumsfeld are saving these weapons to give to China to use against North Korea like when we gave these same weapons to Saddam to use against Iraq. Yeah - that must be it. Brilliant! )
LIE - "We simply cannot live in fear of a ruthless dictator, aggressor and terrorist such as Saddam Hussein, who possesses the world's most deadly weapons." - Bill Frist, Senate Majority Leader - Speech to American Israel Political Action Committee 3/31/2003
( Although this statement was a lie I saw this almost identical statement which IS true: "We simply cannot live in fear of a ruthless dictator, aggressor and terrorist such as George Bush, who possesses the world's most deadly weapons." ~ Undisclosed UN Member)
LIE - "We still need to find and secure Iraq's weapons of mass destruction facilities and secure Iraq's borders so we can prevent the flow of weapons of mass destruction materials and senior regime officials out of the country." - Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense - Press Conference 4/9/2003
( Uh - when - uh - do you think that will be completed? Isn't it a little late to plan the very first thing that should have been done? Unless of course you knew there were no WMD"s in the first place.)
LIE - "You bet we're concerned about it. And one of the reasons it's important is because the nexus between terrorist states with weapons of mass destruction ... and terrorist groups -- networks -- is a critical link. And the thought that ... some of those materials could leave the country and in the hands of terrorist networks would be a very unhappy prospect. So it is important to us to see that that doesn't happen." Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense - Press Conference 4/9/2003
(So when does that plan go into effect?)
LIE - "Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass destruction U.S. forces find -- and there will be plenty." - Robert Kagan, Neocon scholar - Washington Post op-ed 4/9/2003 (Did I miss it?)
NOT A LIE - "I think you have always heard, and you continue to hear from officials, a measure of high confidence that, indeed, the weapons of mass destruction will be found." - Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary - Press Briefing 4/10/2003
(This is not a lie. We heard this loud and continuous - but now we don't hear it so often since they've run out of places to look.)
LIE - "But make no mistake -- as I said earlier -- we have high confidence that they have weapons of mass destruction. That is what this war was about and it is about. And we have high confidence it will be found." - Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary - Press Briefing 4/10/2003
( Ari tells us to make no mistake and he claims this is the only reason for this war. He didn't explain there would be four more reasons that cancelled out each one before it. )
LIE - "Were not going to find anything until we find people who tell us where the things are. And we have that very high on our priority list, to find the people who know. And when we do, then well learn precisely where things were and what was done." - Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense - Meet the Press 4/13/2003
( After saying just 15 days before that he knew exactly where the WMD were now Rumsfeld says "We're not going to find anything until we find people to tell us where the things are." Which is it Rummy? You either know or you don't. )
LIE - "I have absolute confidence that there are weapons of mass destruction inside this country. Whether we will turn out, at the end of the day, to find them in one of the 2,000 or 3,000 sites we already know about or whether contact with one of these officials who we may come in contact with will tell us, 'Oh, well, there's actually another site,' and we'll find it there, I'm not sure." - General Tommy Franks, Commander in Chief Central Command - Fox News 4/13/2003 (The last three words in the above comment is the only truth.)
LIE - "We are learning more as we interrogate or have discussions with Iraqi scientists and people within the Iraqi structure, that perhaps he destroyed some, perhaps he dispersed some. And so we will find them."George W. Bush, President - NBC Interview 4/24/2003
LIE - "There are people who in large measure have information that we need . . . so that we can track down the weapons of mass destruction in that country." - Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense - Press Briefing 4/25/2003
LIE - "We'll find them. It'll be a matter of time to do so." George W. Bush, President Remarks to Reporters 5/3/2003
LIE - "I'm absolutely sure that there are weapons of mass destruction there and the evidence will be forthcoming. We're just getting it just now." - Colin Powell, Secretary of State - Remarks to Reporters 5/4/2003
(That was 2 1/2 years ago. Powell was required to lie to keep his job.)
LIE -"We never believed that we'd just stumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country." - Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense - Fox News Interview 5/4/2003
(Absolutely a lie. Rumsfeld continually said we know exactly where they are.)
LIE - "I'm not surprised if we begin to uncover the weapons program of Saddam Hussein -- because he had a weapons program." - George W. Bush, President - Remarks to Reporters 5/6/2003
(Now it's a weapons program - not the actual weapons.)
LIE - "U.S. officials never expected that 'we were going to open garages and find' weapons of mass destruction." Condoleeza Rice, US National Security Advisor - Reuters Interview 5/12/2003 (obvious lie)
LIE - "I just don't know whether it was all destroyed years ago -- I mean, there's no question that there were chemical weapons years ago -- whether they were destroyed right before the war, (or) whether they're still hidden." - Maj. Gen. David Petraeus, Commander 101st Airborne, Press Briefing 5/13/2003
(Those were the ones we gave or sold Saddam - that's why he was certain. Saddam used them on Iraq and the Kurds while the US winked and nodded with approval.)
LIE - "We said all along that we will never get to the bottom of the Iraqi WMD program simply by going and searching specific sites, that you'd have to be able to get people who know about the programs to talk to you." Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense - Interview with Australian Broadcasting 5/13/2003
(Talk about lying and backing off what was previously said.)
LIE "Before the war, there's no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical. I expected them to be found. I still expect them to be found." - Gen. Michael Hagee, Commandant of the Marine Corps - Interview with Reporters 5/21/2003
(I repeat: Those were the ones we gave or sold Saddam - that's why he was certain.Saddam used them on Iraq and the Kurds while the US winked and nodded with approval. The should have said "has weapons" - a Freudian slip?)
LIE - "It's going to take time to find them, but we know he had them. And whether he destroyed them, moved them or hid them, we're going to find out the truth. One thing is for certain: Saddam Hussein no longer threatens America with weapons of mass destruction." - George W. Bush, President - Speech at a weapons factory in Ohio 5/25/2003
(It's sad isn't it - that this man is our president rather than Al Gore)
LIE - "Given time, given the number of prisoners now that we're interrogating, I'm confident that we're going to find weapons of mass destruction." - Gen. Richard Myers, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff - NBC Today Show interview 5/26/2003
LIE - "They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer." - Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense - Remarks to Council on Foreign Relations 5/27/2003
(Defensive backpedaling - still not admitting their reason for going to war was false.)
LIE - "For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction (as justification for invading Iraq) because it was the one reason everyone could agree on." Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense - Vanity Fair interview 5/28/2003
(This is not a lie and instead is a rare glimpse of the truth. They wanted to invade, planned to invade, but knew American citizens and the rest of the world would not accept an invasion for reasons of oil and American empire. They had to make Saddam out as an immediate threat to the world and knew they would have to lie and fabricate evidence of WMD. The majority of Americans and people around the world now realize this.)
LIE - "The President is indeed satisfied with the intelligence that he received. And I think that's borne out by the fact that, just as Secretary Powell described at the United Nations, we have found the bio trucks that can be used only for the purpose of producing biological weapons. That's proof-perfect that the intelligence in that regard was right on target." - Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary - Press Briefing 5/29/2003
(These trucks were determined to be for commercial use and had no capabilities for making biological weapons. To read how the US was duped by Chalabi and his relative, the intelligence source referred to as Curveball, go here - http://www.blogger.com/ )
LIE - "We have teams of people that are out looking. They've investigated a number of sites. And within the last week or two, they have in fact captured and have in custody two of the mobile trailers that Secretary Powell talked about at the United Nations as being biological weapons laboratories." Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense - Infinity Radio Interview 5/30/2003
( These turned out to be water purification units or something on that order)
LIE - "But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong, we found them." - George W. Bush, President - Interview with TVP Poland 5/30/2003
(How can the president of the United States be led to make such false statements which were later proved false? If you were president wouldn't you want to make sure any charge so serious was fully documented as true before making it? This is the same strategy used in the elections. Claim those who oppose you are wrong despite evidence to the contrary and keep repeating it. Too many Americans trust that our leaders would not lie to us.)
LIE - "You remember when Colin Powell stood up in front of the world, and he said Iraq has got laboratories, mobile labs to build biological weapons ...They're illegal. They're against the United Nations resolutions, and we've so far discovered two...And we'll find more weapons as time goes on." George W. Bush, President- Press Briefing 5/30/2003
NOT A LIE - "It was a surprise to me then -- it remains a surprise to me now -- that we have not uncovered weapons, as you say, in some of the forward dispersal sites. Believe me, it's not for lack of trying. We've been to virtually every ammunition supply point between the Kuwaiti border and Baghdad, but they're simply not there." - Lt. Gen. James Conway, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force - Press Interview 5/30/2003
( This one is not a lie - how did they allow this guy get out there and make this statement?)
LIE - "Do I think we're going to find something? Yeah, I kind of do, because I think there's a lot of information out there." Maj. Gen. Keith Dayton, Defense Intelligence Agency - Press Conference 5/30/2003
Question for Wolfowitz: The fact that there hasn't been substantial cache of weapons of mass destruction -- is that an embarrassment?
Wolfowitz: No. Is it an embarrassment to people on the other side that we've discovered these biological production vans, which the defector told us about? - Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense - CNN Interview 5/31/2003
(Who is the other side that Wolfowitz refers to? Those who were proven right? These vans were later proven not to be Winnebagos of Death. Is Wolfowitz capable of embarrassment? If this brazen man, who designed and planned this illegal war, isn't incompetent and dangerous - no one is.)
LIE -"This wasn't material I was making up, it came from the intelligence community." - Colin Powell, Secretary of State - Press Briefing 6/2/2003
LIE - "'We know that some of them, especially the biological weapons, were being destroyed,' Hastert said, adding that it would 'take a little while to find weapons of mass destruction... and we're going to continue to do it.'" Dennis Hastert, House Speaker R-IL - Press Briefing 6/4/2003
( We knew they were being destroyed because the weapons inspectors supervised it.)
LIE - "We recently found two mobile biological weapons facilities which were capable of producing biological agents. This is the man who spent decades hiding tools of mass murder. He knew the inspectors were looking for them. You know better than me he's got a big country in which to hide them. We're on the look. We'll reveal the truth." George W. Bush, President - CAMP SAYLIYA, Qatar 6/5/2003
(The truth has been revealed and the truth is Bush was lying and knew it as he was doing it.)
LIE - "I would put before you Exhibit A, the mobile biological labs that we have found. People are saying, 'Well, are they truly mobile biological labs?' Yes, they are. And the DCI, George Tenet, Director of Central Intelligence, stands behind that assessment." Colin Powell, Secretary of State - Fox News Interview 6/8/2003
(George Tenet was honored by George Bush for being incompetent and for falling on his sword.)
LIE - "No one ever said that we knew precisely where all of these agents were, where they were stored." Condoleeza Rice, US National Security Advisor - Meet the Press 6/8/2003
(Liar Liar, Liar! It was claimed over and over the Bush administration knew exactly where the weapons were. See the above documented statements.)
LIE - "What the president has said is because it's been the long-standing view of numerous people, not only in this country, not only in this administration, but around the world, including at the United Nations, who came to those conclusions...And the president is not going to engage in the rewriting of history that others may be trying to engage in." Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary - Response to Question From Press 6/9/2003
LIE - "Iraq had a weapons program...Intelligence throughout the decade showed they had a weapons program. I am absolutely convinced with time we'll find out they did have a weapons program." George W. Bush, President - Comment to Reporters 6/9/2003
(At that point Bush was beginning to hedge over whether Saddam had actual WMD to claiming that Saddam had a WMD program.)
LIE - "The biological weapons labs that we believe strongly are biological weapons labs, we didn't find any biological weapons with those labs. But should that give us any comfort? Not at all. Those were labs that could produce biological weapons whenever Saddam Hussein might have wanted to have a biological weapons inventory." - Colin Powell, Secretary of State- Associated Press Interview 6/12/2003
LIE -"Those documents were only one piece of evidence in a larger body of evidence suggesting that Iraq attempted to purchase uranium from Africa ... The issue of Iraq's pursuit of uranium in Africa is supported by multiple sources of intelligence. The other sources of evidence did and do support the president's statement." Sean McCormack, National Security Council Spokesman - Statement to press 6/13/2003
(Do you think maybe Sean is in somebody's pocket?)
LIE - "My personal view is that their intelligence has been, I'm sure, imperfect, but good. In other words, I think the intelligence was correct in general, and that you always will find out precisely what it was once you get on the ground and have a chance to talk to people and explore it, and I think that will happen." -Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense - Press Briefing 6/18/2003
LIE - "I have reason, every reason, to believe that the intelligence that we were operating off was correct and that we will, in fact, find weapons or evidence of weapons, programs, that are conclusive. But that's just a matter of time...It's now less than eight weeks since the end of major combat in Iraq and I believe that patience will prove to be a virtue." - Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense - Pentagon media briefing. 6/24/2003
(Defensive backpedaling, obfuscation and refusing to admit mistakes are not virtues. )
MS. BLOCK to Colin Powell : There were no toxins found in those trailers.
LIE - Secretary Powell's answer: "Which could mean one of several things: one, they hadn't been used yet to develop toxins; or, secondly, they had been sterilized so thoroughly that there is no residual left. It may well be that they hadn't been used yet." - Colin Powell, Secretary of State - All Things Considered, Interview 6/27/2003
(Embarrassing defensive backpedaling. He forgot to mention that maybe they had not been built for developing toxins (which later proved true) and had not yet been redesigned for that purpose.)
LIE - "That was the concern we had with Saddam Hussein. Not only did he have weapons -- and we'll uncover not only his weapons but all of his weapons programs -- he never lost the intent to have these kinds of weapons." - Colin Powell, Secretary of State - All Things Considered, Interview 6/27/2003
LIE - "I think the burden is on those people who think he didn't have weapons of mass destruction to tell the world where they are." - Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary - Press Briefing 7/9/2003
(This amazes me. Absolutely straight out of Alice in Wonderland - Mad Hatter/White Rabbit flabbergasting! Where are the weapons that were not there? Does this not call for a psychiatric review of Fleischer?)
The Hunt For WMD is Over The hunt for biological, chemical and nuclear weapons in Iraq came to an end nearly two years after President Bush ordered U.S. troops to disarm Saddam Hussein. The top CIA weapons hunter came home, and analysts are back at Langley. Officials who served with the Iraq Survey Group (ISG) said the violence in Iraq, coupled with a lack of new information, led them to fold up the effort shortly before Christmas 2004. Charles A. Duelfer, who led the weapons hunt in 2004, submitted an interim report to Congress that contradicted nearly every prewar assertion about Iraq made by top Bush administration officials. ISG's final conclusions were published this past spring.
Any half competent attorney could take the list of lies above and other supporting evidence and convict the Bush administration of crimes against the world and this nation. Those lies along with the campaign to justify this war by manipulating public opinion to believe that there was a connection between Iraq and the 9/11 terrorist attack, the torturing of prisoners, the outing of a covert agent, the inept response to Katrina, the failure to secure and protect our borders, the corrupt political and corporate cronyism and theft of our tax dollars, the massive debt, etc. etc. are more than enough to convict Bush and this administration and call for his resignation.
All the above and the Ohio and Florida election fraud allowing Bush to take office for consecutive terms is destroying our democratic form of government. Democracy cannot survive without honest elections and without honest leaders in the White House. If we allow voter suppression and dirty tricks to go uncovered and unpunished, these tactics will become more virulent in future elections.
The neo-cons believe that our constitution, our form of government and all of our institutions are no longer relevant to the modern world and need to be changed to support the corporate model. All nations in history that allowed fascist governments to become established have all suffered violence and turmoil before recovering their freedoms and a semblance of peace. In all dictatorships a wealthy class made up of a select group supports the dictator, helps him to ascend to and maintain power until the masses finally organize and gain enough power to overthrow them. The underpinnings of fascism and military rule are now taking shape in the US. Is a revolution necessary to prevent this? Jefferson thought not. It seems he had this difficult time we are now experiencing in mind when he made this statement
"A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles. It is true that in the meantime we are suffering deeply in spirit, and incurring the horrors of a war and long oppressions of enormous public debt. If the game runs sometimes against us at home we must have patience till luck turns, and then we shall have an opportunity of winning back the principles we have lost, for this is a game where principles are at stake " - Thomas Jefferson 1798"
You just gotta love Jefferson.
Gary
