Study: False statements preceded war

A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks. Full Story »

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Jack Dinkmeyer
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by Jack Dinkmeyer - Oct. 1, 2008

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.

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