A newly released study finds President Bush and members of his administration issued hundreds of false statements about the threat posed by Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.
Representative Henry Waxman (D-CA) is four years ahead of the study’s findings. Waxman had a tally of Bush Administration lies documented for the House Committee on Government Reform back in March of 2004. His report was called Iraq on the Record.
The Center for Public Integrity and the Fund for Independence in Journalism counted 935 false statements in the two-year period finding that in speeches, briefings, and interviews, 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.
Waxman’s findings were compiled in much less time, but still offer extraordinary detail:
Revisit the madness for yourself:
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Why doesn’t Congress do something? Isn’t this the crime of century? Even without an empowered Democratic majority, you’d think Republicans would want to hold them accountable and take pride in cleaning up their own back yard.
Your frustration is mine. Is voting the only recourse citizens have? And that hasn’t done much good.
What did Rice say? “We don’t want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.” Yeah, that was a doozy.
FeelingMyQuakerOats, on January 23rd, 2008 at 4:53 pm Said:
” Is voting the only recourse citizens have? ”
the answer is no.but too many people are asleep.
232 years ago a plan was put into place to fix problems like this.I’m not raggin’ you.There was a plan put into place in the form of the second amendment.
very extreme but in place .and for how long?they are trying to chip away at it.They know EXACTLY what it is,and what it means and what the people can do if the people get a bellyfull.With what has transpired in the last few months I see a real bumpy ride coming up.