It's important that AP drew attention to the report, but there's a lot missing that others covered. First off, the database used for the report is available to the public (linked below) As Charles Lewis and Mark Reading-Smith noted in their article announcing the report, "False Pretenses," "Bush and the top officials of his administration have so far largely avoided the harsh, sustained glare of formal scrutiny about their personal responsibility for the litany of repeated, false statements in the run-up to the war in Iraq. There has been no congressional investigation, for example, into what exactly was going on inside the Bush White House in that period. Congressional oversight has focused almost entirely on the quality of ... More »

A straight to the bone, no holds barred concise report of 935 false statements about WMD and al-qaida made by the heavy hitters: Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Powell, Wolfowitz, Fleischer, and McClellan. Naturally Bush was first; interestingly, Powell was second. I would have given second place to Rumsfeld. That 935 figure tends to make falsehood of any disclaimers by naysayers.

Straight reporting from the report with no analysis.

The numbers make the story striking. Powell has often been excused for his WMD in Iraq misinformation by suggesting that he made a mistake in testifying at the UN. In this story he is cited as having made 241 false statements re WMD.

Straightforward, clear report, says a lot in few words. Although the "orchestrated campaign" of disinformation is old news to most, the report is important because of all the people who choose not to believe they've been swallowing lies.

The story documents statistically the massive lying by the bush crime family in spewing their fear and hate to get the people to attack Iraq contrary to international law, and to provide a false excuse for plundering Iraqi oil for US corporations. The story goes too easy on the press. I as an individual was fully informed that all the neo-con claims were unsubstantiated or blatantly false; there is a gross failure of the press to investigate and challenge, and probably an intentional attempt by right wing corporate owners of the military-industrial-media media arm to promote the war.

As someone else pointed out, straight news reporting of facts that the media should have been on top of at the time.

I'm shocked, shocked I tell you.

I find it interesting that one of the media proponents of propaganda and the dissemination of lies, would have the chutzpah to make hay of other liars.

Did the authors of the study look at the speeches, briefings, interviews of the Clinton administration? I'm sure that they said some of the same things that the Bush administration did. Just like Mr. Stenzel says, "The actions taken in 2003 were based on the collective judgment of intelligence agencies around the world." The Intelligence community did not just gin that Iraq had a WMD program after 9/11, if you will remember we were pretty much at war with Iraq from 1991 until the invasion in 2003 due to Saddam's brinkmanship with the UN weapons inspectors The Bush administration was not the first to advocate regime change in Iraq, on Dec 19, 1999, President Clinton in a radio address, announced that the policy of the U.S. ... More »