Various Bush Administration Lies

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

Things that turned out to be false, exaggerated, or if true that they tried to deny after the fact. I just threw this list together in just a couple of minutes of the top of my head. Please feel free to add. I'm looking specifically for falsehoods and gross distortions, there are so many...


WMD:
Nigerian Yellowcake (SOTU)
Trailers represent biowarfare labs "we've found the WMD!"


Saddam/Al Qaeda:
Mohammed Atta met with Iraqi intelligence in Prague
Leaked "raw intelligence" document from Douglas Feith purporting to
link Al Qaeda and Iraq


Economy/Jobs:
Projected continuing surpluses in the face of proposed tax cuts
(actually massive deficits)
Projected large production of jobs which was in fact job loss
(currently predicting massive job production)
Not including estimates for Iraq war cost until after the budget
(turned into 87B request, looking to do the same now)
Labor Dept. Memo to businesses on how to avoid paying overtime

Various:
British Airways sighting of Air Force 1 on way to Iraq
"Propaganda letters to the editor from soldiers" by DOD hack
Fake Jessica Lynch Heroism in combat story

[AngryYoungMan]

1. 9/11

- What they told him
- Why he kept reading about the pet goat
- "That's one bad pilot" etc.
-No warnings
-Rice: "We never in our wildest dreams etc." after specific documented warnings
-All Clinton's fault
-Asbestos in air was "harmless"
-plane aimed at Air Force I
etc.