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As Bob Fertik keeps pointing out Germany, France, Russia, and China were among the nations whose intelligence agencies rejected the pre-Iraq war lies from the White House.
As the White House keeps pointing out, basic obvious facts that are six years old can simply be erased by claiming otherwise repeatedly.
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US rejects Australia PM charges of twisted Iraq intelligence
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The White House Monday rejected Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's charges of "abuse" of pre-war intelligence on Iraq, saying "the entire world" agreed on the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.
"We acted on the intelligence that we had, and that the entire world had," spokeswoman Dana Perino told reporters after Rudd alleged "abuse of intelligence information" on the regime in Baghdad.
Treason is never old news
It must be pretty clear now - even to the densest of individuals - that Bush and his fellow weasels deliberately lied the US into the Iraq war.
So how does the US news media respond to a former press secretaries account of this reality?
They question his loyalty, his accuracy, his motivations.
And it's largely working.
These questions have framed the discussion of the McClellan book.
Not the fact that we know beyond a shadow of a doubt that Bush and Rove and Rice and Cheney lied, betrayed the country and did it for personal gain.
The study counted 935 false statements in the two-year period. It found that in speeches, briefings, interviews and other venues, Bush and administration officials stated unequivocally on at least 532 occasions that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or was trying to produce or obtain them or had links to al-Qaida or both.
"It is now beyond dispute that Iraq did not possess any weapons of mass destruction or have meaningful ties to al-Qaida," according to Charles Lewis and Mark Reading-Smith of the Fund for Independence in Journalism staff members, writing an overview of the study. "In short, the Bush administration led the nation to war on the basis of erroneous information that it methodically propagated and that culminated in military action against Iraq on March 19, 2003."
Originally posted by budski
So, my concern is that the current global problems are a simple magicians mis-direction trick, and are manufactured problems.
Originally posted by maria_stardust
reply to post by DimensionalDetective
That revelation is staggering! I'm curious as to how the spin doctors are going to spin that bit of info around. Let's face it, 935 lies in such a short time frame is a mighty mountain of false statements to climb over.
Originally posted by sos37
No disrespect to the OP intended, but I fail to understand why so many repeatedly beat up on the Bush administration when Clinton's administration also believed their were WMD's in Iraq.
Originally posted by maria_stardust
reply to post by sos37
The real point is that the Bush administration new this information to be false from several military and goverment sources. Yet they chose to present this false information repeatedly as a justification for war in Iraq.