The 935 Iraq War false statements

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In a widely-reported study of orchestrated deception, the Center found that President Bush and seven top officials made 935 false statements leading up to the Iraq war — and offer them in a database for all to see.


Search 380,000 words of every public pronouncement by top Bush administration officials on the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and on the links between Iraq and Al Qaeda.


Leading the pack, President Bush made 232 false statements about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and 28 false statements about Iraq's connections with Al Qaeda. Secretary of State Colin Powell followed close behind with 244 false statements about weapons of mass destruction and 10 about Al Qaeda links.


How to search the false statements: Click on an individual's photo to see their timeline of false statements, and read the actual statements below.


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damngrumpy

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Ah yes the Downing Street memo that was a lie from the first page.
The case at the UN was also a lie no WOMD and the administration
wanted a war to avenge an alleged plot against Bush senior The war
that created the mess we have because they couldn't control one man.
In addition the man the Americans supplied with satellite photos of
Iran's troop movements then shouted foul when Saddam gassed them.
Actually he gassed his own as the Iranians moved out in the night and
the poor and homeless moved in and died
Its what happens when you fight a war on a credit card
 
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damngrumpy said:
In addition the man the Americans supplied with satellite photos of
Iran's troop movements then shouted foul when Saddam gassed them.
Actually he gassed his own as the Iranians moved out in the night and
the poor and homeless moved in and died
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huh?
 
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Former CIA Director James Woolsey, a vocal advocate of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq who promoted allegations that Saddam Hussein harbored illegal weapons, will serve as a senior national security adviser to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, the campaign announced on Monday.

Woolsey’s hiring contrasted with Trump’s repeated assertions that he was a stalwart opponent of the invasion, although he initially supported it.

In the announcement, Woolsey said he supports Trump’s plan to expand the U.S. military, which calls for ending Pentagon budget caps and spending billions of dollars for additional troops, ships and aircraft.

Woolsey was an outspoken proponent of the Iraq invasion, suggesting that Saddam was hiding nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs from U.N. inspectors. He also promoted the erroneous allegation that the Iraqi dictator backed al Qaida's Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States.

Shortly after former President George W. Bush took office in 2001, Woolsey visited Britain on a Defense Department trip in a fruitless hunt for evidence that Saddam masterminded the 1993 attack on the World Trade Center in New York. He made a second visit to Britain for the same purpose shortly after Sept. 11, and again came up empty.

At the time of his second trip, Woolsey was a member of the Defense Policy Board, a panel of outside advisers to the Defense Department that advocated Saddam's overthrow even in the absence of any evidence of his complicity in 9/11.

The following year, he arranged for the Defense Intelligence Agency to debrief an Iraqi defector who claimed that Iraq had mobile biological-warfare laboratories disguised as yogurt and milk trucks. The man was later determined to be a fabricator.

In 2000, Woolsey briefly served as a corporate officer of a foundation that managed U.S. funding for the Iraqi National Congress, the exile group that produced a series of defectors who peddled false information to bolster the allegations that Saddam was hiding illicit weapons programs.

No such weapons or facilities have ever been found.

Former CIA chief who urged Iraq war signs on as Trump adviser | Reuters
 
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