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Mr. Bush, You Are A Liar
By William Rivers Pitt
"Bush and the White House told the American people over and over again that Iraq was in possession of vast stockpiles of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. Bush and the White House said over and over again that this was a direct threat to the United States. Bush and the White House told the American people over and over again that Iraq was directly connected to al Qaeda terrorism, and would hand those terrible weapons over to the terrorists the first chance they got. Bush and the White House told Congress the same thing. Very deliberately, Bush and the White House tied a war in Iraq to the attack of September 11..."
"I have little choice but to conclude that some of the intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat," Wilson wrote in his Times editorial. "A legitimate argument can be made that we went to war under false pretenses." He elaborated further in a Washington Post interview, saying, "It really comes down to the administration misrepresenting the facts on an issue that was a fundamental justification for going to war. It begs the question, what else are they lying about?"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/071103A.shtml
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"The worst kind of lie"
By John Chuckman
"Today we have a president who has hurled the world into two dirty, pointless wars after what undoubtedly qualifies as the longest sequence of public lies ever uttered in a free society, and yet in his homeland, he remains popular and is collecting enough campaign cash to rival the Swiss bank balances of the Russian Mafia."
"But Bush has lied daily, doing it so awkwardly at times that you might think everyone is aware of it, and it seems to make no difference to his political standing."
"Why are Americans not distressed at this? Because they live in an intense field, an electromagnetic haze, of marketing, advertising, and commercial propaganda twenty-four hours a day. Americans are so saturated with this stuff that they regard it as normal communication."
http://www.yellowtimes.org/article.php?sid=1467
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CIA Asked Britain To Drop Iraq Claim
By Walter Pincus - The Washington Post
"The White House on Monday acknowledged that Bush's uranium claim was based on faulty intelligence and should not have been included in the speech, further stoking a controversy over the administration's handling of prewar intelligence. Democratic lawmakers yesterday called for public hearings, while the Democratic National Committee opened an advertising campaign to encourage people to sign petitions calling for an independent commission."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/071203B.shtml
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Bush Team United Iraq Front Unravels
By Michael Moran - MSNBC
"The failure to turn up chemical or biological weapons in Iraq - initially dismissed as a "sour grapes" issue by Bush insiders - is growing into a genuine political problem, dogging the British and U.S. leaders at every public appearance and sparking various agencies that had a hand in Iraq policy to begin plotting a course through the gathering storm..."
"They have to get by this, and they have to do that very soon," says a source close to the Bush family, who requested anonymity. "The GOP can bottle up inquiries in Congress, but they can't bottle up public opinion..."
"But the CIA, sensing once again it might become a scapegoat, leaked its own take on the affair to the Washington Post, stressing that the CIA had gone so far as to warn the British that "State Department analysts were questioning its accuracy when it came to Niger and that CIA personnel considered reports on other African countries to be 'sketchy.'"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/071203E.shtml
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Democrats Question Bush's Credibility
By Nedra Pickler - The Associated Press
" Kerry's campaign strategy in the next few weeks will be to focus on what he contends is a pattern of deception by the administration on several issues beyond Iraq and the war, a
campaign official said..."
"The former Vermont governor, who opposed the war, added: "The only other possibility, which is unthinkable, is that the president of the United States knew himself that this was a false fact and he put it in the State of the Union anyhow. I hope for the sake of this country that did not happen."
"Asked whether he thought Vice President Dick Cheney should resign if he knew, Dean said, "Anybody who misled Bush should leave office, whoever that may be." Pressed on whether Bush should resign, Dean said, "I think before we cross to that we better find out what the facts are.
"But in an echo of Watergate and a Republican president who did resign, Richard M. Nixon, Dean said, "The time for stonewalling is over..."
"Sen. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., an outspoken critic of the war, said the "tragic failure of the administration's efforts to build international support before launching its impatient rush toward war against Iraq is now bearing its bitter, bitter fruit."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/071203H.shtml
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Post War - Le Monde
"Donald Rumsfeld's tone has also changed. Testifying in the beginning of the week before a Senate commission, the Secretary of Defense didn't display his customary arrogance. He admitted that the post war was proving to be twice as expensive as expected- 3.9 billion dollars per month-, that American troops deployed in Iraq- 146 000 soldiers - could not be repatriated as
quickly as foreseen, finally that the United States was soliciting 20,000 more troops for October from the countries which had agreed to help on the ground..."
"In the background there is the suspicion, which every day seems to have a firmer basis, about the manipulations Washington and London engaged in to present Iraq as an "imminent danger" given an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction of which no trace has yet been found."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/071203I.shtml
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