Bush - CONTINUES TO LIE - About Iraqi War (Robert Parry)

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Bush Still Lies about Iraqi Inspections

By Robert Parry
December 2, 2008

In what’s been called George W. Bush’s first exit interview, http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=6356046 the outgoing President continues a lie that he first unveiled several months after launching the Iraq War, justifying the invasion by claiming that Saddam Hussein didn’t let the U.N. inspectors in.

Like previous times when President Bush has used this lie, it went unchallenged by the journalist who heard the false claim, in this case ABC News anchor Charles Gibson.

According to the text of the ABC News interview, which was released Dec. 1, Gibson asked Bush, “If the (U.S.) intelligence had been right (and revealed no Iraq WMD), would there have been an Iraq War?”

Bush answered, “Yes, because Saddam Hussein was unwilling to let the inspectors go in to determine whether or not the U.N. resolutions were being upheld.”

Of course, the historical record is clear: Hussein did let U.N. arms inspectors into Iraq in the fall of 2002 to search any site of their choosing. Their travels around Iraq in white vans were recorded daily by the international news media, as they found no evidence that Iraq had WMD stockpiles, even at sites targeted by U.S. intelligence.

more at:
http://consortiumnews.com/2008/120108c.html

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Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction

Two former CIA officers say the president squelched top-secret intelligence, and a briefing by George Tenet, months before invading Iraq.

On April 23, 2006, CBS's "60 Minutes" interviewed Tyler Drumheller, the former CIA chief of clandestine operations for Europe, who disclosed that the agency had received documentary intelligence from Naji Sabri, Saddam's foreign minister, that Saddam did not have WMD. "We continued to validate him the whole way through," said Drumheller. "The policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming, and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy, to justify the policy."
http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/09/06/bush_wmd/index.html

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1. Water continues to flow downhill!

More breaking news at 11

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2. Lying is a way of life for that PPOS!

:grr:

:kick: & Recommended

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3. He surrounded himself with people who believed they dictate history.

He believes himself a quantity of God.

Sure, he and his administration had access to all the facts proving they were LYING to the public about the danger posed by Iraq. However, one must acknowledge that, these people,...had symptoms consistent with numerous psychopathic and sociopathic illnesses.

Did they KNOW "right" from "wrong" when they intentionally deceived an entire nation to get what they wanted?

Are they crazy like foxes?

Will they EVER EVER EVER face the consequences of their actions?

*sigh*