well lets see.... 10 trillion divided by 935....
thats more than 10 billion per lie. who knew....
oh and for the haters out there, heres the link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080123/ap_o鈥?/a>935 false statements on Iraq, how many billions of dollars wasted per false statement is that?
The majority of these comments were based on the intelligence information collected by numerous governments. They fail to include that out. He was under the same opinion as the rest of the world.
And I should accept the word of people who are on the record as wanting to get President George W. Bush out of Office ?
~OM~
Follow the money trail if you want to really get pissed off. A lot of well connected people have made a killing off of Iraq.
In the 1960's people used to talk about being wary of the military industrial complex affecting military policy. We need to be mindful of that again. A lot of Corporations make a lot of money off our wars. Corporate heads want to make their money and retire. The American people are footing the bill.
The worst part of this is that these people now have money to spare to buy politicians in the future. They will buy those politicians with our children's borrowed tax dollars.
What lies? Who listed them? Who claimed them? Who has proof of each lie? When did they take place?
Do you have any proof whatsoever or just accusations, innuendo and bs?
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Nikke ... you have no answer or you try to skip it to avoid deliberating ...with unpleasant issues !!
When any 'state machinery' gets involved in telling lies for ulterior motives, the situation becomes messy like this. Now, what about the ';world peace'; and who will lead ?
The news :-
WASHINGTON -23-Jan-08 : A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.
The study concluded that the statements ';were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses.';
The study was posted Tuesday on the Web site of the Center for Public Integrity, which worked with the Fund for Independence in Journalism
White House spokesman Scott Stanzel did not comment on the merits of the study Tuesday night but reiterated the administration's position that the world community viewed Iraq's leader, Saddam Hussein, as a threat.
';The actions taken in 2003 were based on the collective judgment of intelligence agencies around the world,'; Stanzel said.
The study counted 935 false statements in the two-year period. It found that in speeches, briefings, interviews and other venues, Bush and administration officials stated unequivocally on at least 532 occasions that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or was trying to produce or obtain them or had links to al-Qaida or both.
';It is now beyond dispute that Iraq did not possess any weapons of mass destruction or have meaningful ties to al-Qaida,'; according to Charles Lewis and Mark Reading-Smith of the Fund for Independence in Journalism staff members, writing an overview of the study. ';In short, the Bush administration led the nation to war on the basis of erroneous information that it methodically propagated and that culminated in military action against Iraq on March 19, 2003.';
Named in the study along with Bush were top officials of the administration during the period studied: Vice President Dick Cheney, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and White House press secretaries Ari Fleischer and Scott McClellan.
Bush led with 259 false statements, 231 about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and 28 about Iraq's links to al-Qaida, the study found. That was second only to Powell's 244 false statements about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and 10 about Iraq and al-Qaida.
The center said the study was based on a database created with public statements over the two years beginning on Sept. 11, 2001, and information from more than 25 government reports, books, articles, speeches and interviews.
';The cumulative effect of these false statements 鈥?amplified by thousands of news stories and broadcasts 鈥?was massive, with the media coverage creating an almost impenetrable din for several critical months in the run-up to war,'; the study concluded.
';Some journalists 鈥?indeed, even some entire news organizations 鈥?have since acknowledged that their coverage during those prewar months was far too deferential and uncritical. These mea culpas notwithstanding, much of the wall-to-wall media coverage provided additional, 'independent' validation of the Bush administration's false statements about Iraq,'; it said.
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On the Net:
Center For Public Integrity: http://www.publicintegrity.org/default.a鈥?/a>
Fund For Independence in Journalism: http://www.tfij.org/
OMG! Do you really believe what you just wrote? Who funded this ';research?'; Who are the non-profit groups? Jesus, people!
Take a stand and stick to it. When someone posts a controviersial website go look at it. Theres more to the story
here.....
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?鈥?/a>
Thanks for the George Soros funded info.
I'm not sure if that count is right but ignoring it is how this bozos support our soldiers.
Who is the source? Daily Kos or Media Matters.
Can you tell me how many false statements have been made by lets say Bill Clinton?
Doesn't it strike you a bit strange that far left leaning web site would come up with those kind of figures?
You start with a false premises the logic that follow is also false.
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