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Anonymous asked in Politics & GovernmentPolitics · 1 decade ago

How many times did Bush lie to us to get us into Iraq?

Update:

Thanks yugiraphael.

The brainwashed will choose to remain ignorant though.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Bush and seven of his administration's top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, made at least 935 false statements in the two years following September 11, 2001, about the national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

    On at least 532 separate occasions (in speeches, briefings, interviews, testimony, and the like), Bush and these three key officials, along with Secretary of State Colin Powell, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, and White House press secretaries Ari Fleischer and Scott McClellan, stated unequivocally that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (or was trying to produce or obtain them), links to Al Qaeda, or both. This concerted effort was the underpinning of the Bush administration's case for war.

    Bush, for example, made 232 false statements about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and another 28 false statements about Iraq's links to Al Qaeda. Secretary of State Powell had the second-highest total in the two-year period, with 244 false statements about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and 10 about Iraq's links to Al Qaeda. Rumsfeld and Fleischer each made 109 false statements, followed by Wolfowitz (with 85), Rice (with 56), Cheney (with 48), and McClellan (with 14).

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Bush did NOT lie!!!

    But the defense isn't much better.

    He appointed very unqualified and/or unscrupulous advisors. The summary of the info made it look like Iraq was going to be a slam dunk! Actually, the ousting of Saddam & his sons WAS a slam dunk.

    But Bush & his advisors did not foresee the catastophy to follow.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    About 500 times

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    none....

    with osama changing his stance how many times has he lied and said he will bring all of the troops home now

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    http://www.freedomagenda.com/iraq/wmd_quotes.html

    Will you call them out too? Of course not, they are democrats.

  • 1 decade ago

    So, I guess the impeachment hearing s will be starting any day now, eh?

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    None, how many times do people like yourself lie about it on this board, a million times?

  • 1 decade ago

    How many times has Hillary lied, hell of a lot more than Bush..

  • 1 decade ago

    Never.Do you have any common sense,watching youtube videos to influnce your political views?Moron

  • 1 decade ago

    Only as many as Clinton, Congress, the UN, and our allies told.

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