Politics January 2004
1/25/2004: (CTV | Reuters ) The top U.S. CIA weapons inspector David Kay, hand picked by the Whitehouse, has quit. Of Saddam's large stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons--which were Bush's justification for invasion, he said:
"I don't think they existed," Kay told Reuters. "What everyone was talking about is stockpiles produced after the end of the last (1991) Gulf War and I don't think there was a large-scale production program in the '90s."
... His group has spent several frustrating months searching for evidence of chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, the purported existence of which was a major justification for the U.S-led invasion last March. No banned weapons have ever been found. ...
Here it is from the bona fied legitimate news. Bush lied to you... again. Got it? When your information sources are repeatedly wrong, you need to stop listening to them. Pay attention the next time your 'wacko liberal' friends try to tell you something. Turn off the misleading hate radio propaganda talk shows. Better yet, work to get them thrown off the air.
1/25/2004: (CNN ) A year ago, the Bush 2003 State of the Union address included the lie: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." This was passed off as a "goof" when the facts came out, but it was clearly a scare tactic used to intimidate Americans into war. An administration aide told the media the president "is not a fact-checker." Indeed. No uranium from Africa. No connection between Iraq and Afghanistan. No WMDs in Iraq. No imminent threat.
Top 10 Bush Faulty Facts (aka Lies)
1) Bush said Iraq was seeking to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes "suitable for nuclear weapons production." ( Bush, 2003 State of the Union )
False: According to Mohamed al Baradei, the secretary-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the tubes would be difficult to use for uranium production and were more plausibly intended for artillery rockets. 1
2) Bush said "We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories. They're illegal. They're against the United Nations resolutions, and we've so far discovered two. And we'll find more weapons as time goes on. But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong, we found them."
False: The trailer labs were for hydrogen production for testing artillery balloons. The British sold Iraq the trailers.
3) A Saddam Hussein/Osama bin Laden connection was one of the administration's early justifications for going to war. When Bush announced the end of hostilities in a May 1 speech aboard the USS Lincoln, he said of the defeated Iraqi regime: "We have removed an ally of Al Qaeda."
False: Al Qaeda, including Osama Bin Laden, has denounced Saddam Hussein as an infidel because Hussein is a secularist with no religious foundation, yet al Qaeda's philosophy is premised on religion. 1
4) Bush flagrantly misrepresented the history of the prewar conflict with Iraq over weapons inspections, telling reporters on July 14, 2003 "We gave him a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn't let them in."
False: In fact, after a Security Council resolution was passed demanding that Iraq allow inspectors in, they were given complete access to the country. 1 UN inspectors went into Iraq to search for possible weapons violations from December 2002 into March 2003 2
5) Bush cited a United Nations International Atomic Energy report alleging that Iraq was "six months away" from developing a nuclear weapon.
False: There was no such report by the IAEA. 1
6) Iraq maintained a growing fleet of unmanned aircraft that could be used "for missions targeting the United States." (State of the Union Address – 1/28/2003)
False: Further information revealed that the aircraft lack the range to reach the United States. 1 Not a single aerial vehicle capable of dispersing chemical or biological weapons, has been found anywhere in Iraq. 2
7) The United Nations concluded that Saddam Hussein had materials sufficient to produce more than 38,000 litres of botulinum toxin -- enough to subject millions of people to death by respiratory failure." ( Bush, State of the Union address, 1/28/2003 )
False: Unmovic said in March 2003: "It seems unlikely that significant undeclared quantities of botulinum toxin could have been produced, based on the quantity of media unaccounted for." 1
8) “U.S. intelligence indicates that Saddam Hussein had upwards of 30,000 munitions capable of delivering chemical agents.” ( Bush, State of the Union address, 1/28/2003 )
False: Not a single chemical weapon's munition has been found anywhere in Iraq 1
9) "Iraq has trained al-Qa'ida members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases" ( Bush, speech to the nation 10/7/2002 )
False: This claim, four days before Congress authorised war, omitted classified caveats and warnings that the information might be unreliable. 1
10) "Satellite photographs reveal that Iraq is rebuilding facilities at [past nuclear] sites." ( Bush, speech to the nation 10/7/2002 )
False: Two months of inspections at these former Iraqi nuclear sites found zero evidence of prohibited nuclear activities there. IAEA report to UN Security Council – 1/27/2003 1
11) Bush saluted the hundreds of thousands of U.S. servicemen deployed across the world and declared, "By bringing hope to the oppressed and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure." ( Bush, 2004 State of the Union )
False: A declassified memo from the State Department, discovered by a reporter from the Los Angeles Times notes invasion of Iraq wouldn't lead to democratization of the region, but would harden repressive regimes, intensify Muslim fundamentalist leanings, and exacerbate political extremism in the Arab world and lead to more acts of terrorism against the U.S. 1
12) We seek peace. ( Bush, 2003 State of the Union )
False: This is a funny way of seeking peace: War spending in Iraq and Afghanistan is now over $97 billion, $3.9 billion a month according to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. 1 Not to mention over 500 American lives lost in Iraq, over 100 Americans killed in Afghanistan, at least 5,000 enemies killed by the US in Afghanistan 2, at least 827 Americans wounded, 3 thousands of Iraqi lives lost in a population were over 1/2 of the people were under the age of fifteen.
I said this was a top 10 list and I guess there are 12 items. I'm just a webmaster, not a fact-checker.
1/22/2004: Politics: ( SelectSmart/President ) Take this test to find which candidates match your interests. It is not biased toward one party or another. You may be surprised.
1/22/2004: Politics: CBS refuses to air MoveOn.org ad made, created and voted on by the common people.
1/14/2004: POLITICS: Another Official has confirmed Paul O'Neill's assertion that the Bush administration had planned an invasion of Iraq from its first days in office. "The official, who asked not to be identified, was present in the same National Security Council meetings as O'Neill immediately after Bush's inauguration in January and February of 2001. ... "The president told his Pentagon officials to explore the military options, including use of ground forces," the official told ABCNEWS. "That went beyond the Clinton administration's halfhearted attempts to overthrow Hussein without force." - Abcnews. { My Republican friends: note the source. This does not come from Michael Moore. This is ABC News, a bona fied news organization. It is not 'my political opinion' that Bush was preparing for war from the start. This is a fact told by those in position to know for certain. This is a fact reported by a legitimate news service. }
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