Media Study: BushCo lied hundreds of times about Iraq to sell the war
By John Amato Tuesday Jan 22, 2008 8:30amBill Moyers did a wonderful job of exposing the trumped up case the WH made for war with Iraq with a great special called "Buying the War" which focused on the the media and their role in this travesty. Obviously this new report doesn't come as a shock to anyone in the liberal blogosphere, but I guess if FOX News runs an AP story about these claims then I guess Bill O'Reilly can't say it's "a hit job from the liberal media and NBC." Sorry, I forgot who I was dealing with for a moment.
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 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 Qaeda or both...read on
Scholars & Rogues has more...
I dug into the wonderful C&L archives for a perfect example of their lies in action. (originally posted on 02/09/07 ) Here's Cheney getting caught by Gloria Borger spreading false information about al-Qaeda having ties to Iraq and then denying it almost three years later. Let's roll the tape.
In ‘01, Cheney said this on MTP:
CHENEY: It‘s been pretty well confirmed that he did go to Prague and he did meet with a senior official of the Iraqi intelligence service in Czechoslovakia last April.
on 6/19/04 CNBC, he said:
GLORIA BORGER, TV SHOW HOST: You have said in the past that it was, quote, “pretty well confirmed.”
CHENEY: No, I never said that. BORGER: OK.
CHENEY: I never said that. BORGER: I think that is…
CHENEY: Absolutely not.
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DIE shithead!
We knew they were lies. The only thing new here is that someone bothered to count them.
What's even more pathetic is how the Democrats are going to refuse to act and will demand that impeachment remain "off the table."
What I find encouraging is that the media is picking this story up and running with it. There was an article in The Oregonian this morning, A2, and I listened to the tail end of a segment on Morning Edition on the drive to work. This is far more attention than the lies have gotten in the past.
I believe nothing will come of this report.
so sad
I'm still wating for all the people who went along for the ride in support of this disaster to apologize to those of us who were opposed to it from the beginning. I'm not holding my breath.
Fuckin' lyin' motherfuckers. Or is that too angry? I can just never tell when my anger is appropriate. Would this be one of those?
And they aren't interested in looking for Bin Laden either. Sad. Yahoo Story
Impeach both! It's not too late
After that tar and feather them and march them to the Hague.
Is this bottom feeder dead? Because I sure haven't heard much from him lately. Not that I'm complaining.
The same people who brought us the Savings & Loan Crisis and the Enron Accounting Scandal are responsible for the crashing of our economy.
Nancy, it's your turn to set the table!
I do enjoy that these assholes will indeed be remembered as the worst executives in the history of this country in EVERY area where they had influence....sadly, we have learned that they couldn't give a shit about anything in the world except for getting richer.
Yes, yes, we know....I'll just file this under "No Shit"....
Can we impeach yet?
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The whole world was aware that the Bush White House knowingly lied to the American people, to trick them into supporting Bush's ill-conceived, poorly executed, insanely expensive invasion of Iraq.
For example, six months before Bush invaded Iraq, Al Gore said that a pre-emptive war on Iraq would increase the number of terrorists, undercut US influence in the region, and diminish US legitimacy in the world affairs.
Bush's White House, on the other hand, said that his war on Iraq would last "weeks, not months," Iraqi oil revenues would pay for the war, and a tide of Democracy would sweep through the Middle East.
Al Gore was 100% right. George Bush was 100% wrong.
No wonder rightwingers can't win wars. They don't have what it takes: regular contact with reality. They live in Fantasyland.
A great video representation of some of these LIES being talked about can be found HERE.
Our current congress is the worst in history.
I don't understand why the reporters don't call them on it when they lie. I would have rolled the tape for him. But they NEVER do!
Her conversation was:
GLORIA BORGER, TV SHOW HOST: You have said in the past that it was, quote, “pretty well confirmed.”
CHENEY: No, I never said that. BORGER: OK.
CHENEY: I never said that. BORGER: I think that is…
CHENEY: Absolutely not.
MIne would have been:
:GLORIA BORGER, TV SHOW HOST: You have said in the past that it was, quote, “pretty well confirmed.”
CHENEY: No, I never said that. BORGER: OK.
CHENEY: I never said that.
BORGER: I have the tape of you saying it. Lets take a moment and listen to it."
How hard is that? Then you just sit back and listen to his BS about being taken out of context. To combat that you just show more of the tape!
It is time for impeachment hearings on Bush and Cheney. There is more than ample evidence of "high crimes and misdemeanors," and if Clinton got impeached for lying about getting nookie, these two should be dragged through the streets of Washington in chains and shackles.
The fact that Bush and Cheney not only remain free but remain in power shows that our federal government is hopelessly broken. Checks and balances? Not in this country. And it's not just the Bush administration: both houses of Congress and both parties have participated in these lies. The Democrats are as culpable as the Republicans, especially after being the majority party for a year and doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to rein in Bush and his ilk.
Of course, the Declaration of Independence tells Americans how to impeach the entire bunch of crooks...
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/ is a good blog to keep up with the impeachment effort.
jwf @ 6:
Yes, probably a good idea not to hold one's breath, for those 24 Percenter's will NEVER
comprehend what bush/cheney/et.al. have done to this once great country. They
will continue to live in their dark caves; yet the rest of us can only say..."Jimmy
Crickets, this is NOT "new" news and WHO is surprised at these conclusion?"
I have a suggestion for an updated name for this blog: "Crooks & Liars & Treasonous Traitors"
At this point impeachment should be off the table...let them get out of office where they don't have power to absolve all the players...then charge them all with the crimes they've committed. Personally I'd much rather see Bush drug through the Hague than get off easy like an impeachment...IMHO
Marc
trixr4kids @ 19:
I had the exact same reaction.
The Bush Administration lied???? Next you're going to tell me that the sun rises in the east or that the world is round! Such liberal nonsense. /snark
In March 2004, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) published his findings on administration lies leading up to war.
http://oversight.house.gov/IraqOnTheRecord/pdf_admin_iraq_on_the_record_...
Not all of Congress sucks.
Doggiebobo @ 22:
I'm waiting for the people who voted to give the dumbest president in history to make their "I'm sorry's".
A power reserved to congress by the Constitution because it is to important for one person to decide.
If someone lies to you 935 times, your a senator and you haven't caught on, perhaps your not Presidential timber.
Mel @ 27:
Waxman's Report and Conclusion was made almost FOUR(4) years ago !!! Why did
not the MSM give it coverage since it contains equally as incriminating evidence that
bush/cheney/et.al. lied to the American public? Oh, I forget, the MSM is shit and
seldom, if ever, informs us of facts.
It's too bad more American's didn't know or have the time to figure it all out.. Everybody Knows.
Doggiebobo @ 22:
I'm constantly amazed at the dead-enders who still won't admit their mistake. I asked one dittohead to name one thing Bush has done right. He said we hadn't been attacked again, and blamed Clinton for 9/11. I told him that 37 days after Clinton was sworn in in '92 the first WTC attack occurred, and that by his logic, Bush1 and Reagan were responsible. He threw a hissy fit and walked out of the room. I asked another guy who said he got most of his political information from Sean Hannity's website how long he could work for someone as incompetent as chimpy, and he said not too long. I then asked him how long it would take him to fire someone who was as equally incompetent, and said even less time. Yet he still voted for him the second time. He believed the SwiftBoat bullshit. Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
This man makes flowers wilt simply by being nearby.
True dat.
SHOCKING!!!
jwf @ 31:
Equally as dishonest and incomprhensible to me is that when I attempt to talk w/such
dito heads, they inveriable change the subject to "Bill Clinton" and talk about his
lieing. They just don't and never will get it right because of their narrowmindiness
and misinformation spoon fed to them by Faux Noise and others.
Is there anyone on planet more arrogant than Dichhead Cheney? May this shithead burn in eternal hell for all the death and destruction he and Dumbya have reigned down on the Iraqi people.
Just relax everyone, another episode of American Idol is on tonight!
Lied hundreds of times? Christ, he lies every EF-ing time he opens
his mouth. That must be in the range of HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS.
Domestic terrorism... war crimes... treason?
Impeachment is a gentle blow on the wrist.
Worst. President. EVER.
The sad thing is this administration has been so corrupt that people have come to expect it and just consider it business as usual. The next president, democrat or republican, will continue to abuse the path Bush has paved. I don't see any of it being undone.
I am so glad that someone is keeping track of the Bush/Cheney lies and laws broken. There are so many that it is very easy to forget them. I betcha there is about 1 a week.
When is Bill Moyer on? What's his show schedule? I know it's on pbs, but what day and time?
David Hawes @ 25:
Usually I come up with my best questions after an interview... that's why responsible journalism allows you to call the person up to ask follow-up questions... for a TV interview... they should have just played the old clip and what Cheny said later... and let us make up our own minds. The corporate media isn't giving us enough credit to have our own functioning brains, or they just don't want us to think.
Fascist States of America @ 39:
It started with the lie after Nixon's Watergate scandal that "They all do it."
Doggiebobo @ 35:
And what about Hillary? Has she ever apologized for voting for this ignorant war? She has POOR JUDGMENT and we don't need another Bushie for President. I want CHANGE. Not Bush-lite!
Does anyone remember? I thought like two years ago there was an effort starting to try and document all the bullshit of the Bush administration. Crooks & Liars is really the only blog I read so I'm pretty sure it either started here or was mentioned in Blog Round Up.
Did anything become of this? Is it online somewhere? Am I crazy?
A Thousand Points of Lies!
OK Nancy, then YOU get on the table,we'll start with you.
they could even accomplish a 1,000 lies benchmark! Failure, time and time again.
Well, let's see....
The gave Padilla 17 years, by the same scale of "conspiracy to
harm the country" Dick Cheney's sentence should be around 860,000 years!
And, worse, these scum sucking pigs (with apologies to pigs) intentionally wiped out all the E-mails, a felony IN AND OF itself!
But, I agree with the posters.
These creeps will slink out of office, Bush will do some ABSOLUTELY INSANE "blanket immunity pardon" for all his cronies, and the USSC will rubber stamp it as "constitutional"...
I once saw a round table about the S&L scandal, where all these
talking heads were pontificating about justice and getting the money
back, and this one retired (that's the key) Pol said:
"Nothing will happen. The money is gone. No one will be punished..."
I think, as much as I would like to see these guys frog-marched
in leg irons to Federal Prison that is the case here as well.
35 Doggiebobo Says: Equally as dishonest and incomprhensible to me is that when I attempt to talk w/such
dito heads, they inveriable change the subject to “Bill Clinton” and talk about his
lieing. They just don’t and never will get it right because of their narrowmindiness
and misinformation spoon fed to them by Faux Noise and others.
Yeah, Clinton lied, so do most, if not all, politicians and most citizens as well. As a recovering Catholic, I can tell they just can't seem to grasp the concept of the difference between a mortal sin- lying about war and death and a venial sin- lying about a non-lethal personal matter. It's like when they compare the Abramoff-type corruption in the recent republican Congresses to Dan Rostenkowski's theft of stamps. No equivalency.
You don't become an empire by being honest.
Today's master criminals wear suits and ties.
All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
January 28, 2008 Issue, The American Conservative
FBI whistleblower Sibel Edmonds spills her secrets.
by Philip Giraldi, former CIA Officer
http://www.amconmag.com/2008/2008_01_28/article1.html
Now can we impeach them? Or is still a "waste of time?" Jesus Christ! What more fucking evidence do we need to proceed with impeachment hearings?! (...I'm talking to you John Conyers!).
Oh and by the way, Dennis Kucinich was right. Again.
K U C I N I C H ' 0 8
Dick Cheney before he dicks you.
Okay so NOW can we impeach?
Media Relations lesson #1: Tell lies, and tell a preponderance of lies, and the lies becomes the truth.
Ever wonder, why this administration spent the most PR money ever in the history of US?
We all need to sign a petition saying that "douche-bagery" by our elected officaials is against the law. Punishment for said "douche-bagery" will entail being burried up to your neck in bullshit for one week. A "douche-bagery" judgement pannel will be set. The members of this pannel will consist of angry teen-agers. Said teen-agers will remain on the pannel for no more than one year at which time a set of new agry teen-agers will be appointed. When an elected official commits what the american people feel is an act of "douche-baggery", it will be taken before the pannel. Once an elected official commits three acts of "douche-baggery" while in his office, they shall be hung, drawn, and quatered. There will be no exceptions, no apeals..... nothing.
who knows, it might work
Asking this horseshit administration , and especially Dickhead Cheney , to tell the truth is akin to expecting he and Fat Bastard Limpballs to legitimately explain the difficulties and rigors of military life..................
Imagine the things we don't know or dare not talk about: Spoliation of America
MCMetal @ 58:
Or for that matter, expecting Limpballs to report the truth as to ANYTHING politically
related. But, as we know, he is not alone since I'd put O'Liely/Hanniety/Hummme/Gibson
and most all on Faux Noise and other MSN outlets in the the same category. "Lying
Liars and the Lies They Tell."
How can you tell when a Bush Administration official is lying? His/her mouth is open.
The Brits can lie too, this story just in from the bbc could be interesting ;)
WMD dossier 'should be published'
An early draft of the government's infamous dossier on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction must be made public, the Information Tribunal says.
The document, by Foreign Office press chief John Williams, was an unpublished draft of the dossier which was unveiled by Tony Blair on 24 September 2002.
Here's a 6 minute video I mashed together last April. It starts off with the Cheney/Borger video from last April and goes on to show samples of Bush, Powell, Rice, and Rumsfeld repeatedly lying and contradicting themselves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hz-6A59qzAU
The work isn't very original; all I did was take existing videos juxtaposing BushCo lies and string them together into one video. I do hope it's useful to people, though.
How this man is not in jail is beyond me.
Here's a great video...How to create an Angry American. It should be required viewing for everyone!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgfzqulvhlQ
tblade @ 63:
Thanks....and just think, there are 935 known/reported cases of bush/cheney/et.al
lying to us and your video has only(as I counted) 9 instances.
It would have been easier to count the number of times they've told the truth.
oreilly has already said that this is not a true report, claiming that the center for public integrity, who did the study, is guess what:
"A George Soros" funded group!
so i'm sure all fox noise viewers will not believe it.
"Oh what a tangled web we weave..." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm73wOuPL60
Media Study: BushCo lied hundreds of times about Iraq to sell the war
Someone had to do a study?
mark @ 67:
The Center for Public Integrity is a non-profit organization with support coming ONLY
from individual contributions with NONE from Corporations or Labor. It is a non-partisan
and a non-advocary organization. Anyone who wants the facts about this can just
"Google" and find the truth; but of course O'Liely and his ilk would rather tell more lies.
I guess Pelosi and Reid don't want to admit that there are any impeachable offenses.......Paul in LA standing proud by Pelosi in 5, 4,3,2..........
The fact that people are still DEBATING whether they lied us into a war speaks VOLUMES about the success that the propagandists have had in bullshitting us.
Dangle the carrot. NOTHING will happen to the con artists who hi-jacked our military to steal oil. Get over it.
James @ 72:
I agree, but even more so, it is the MSM who is and has been for oh sooooo long
failing us.
Machiavelli advised the prince that sometimes it is necessary, in the interests of the state, for the prince to lie to the people. Sometimes. That is a far cry from the Mayberry Machiavellis in this administration, for whom lying has become policy.
Kucinich Starts New Impeachment Drive against George W. Bush!
By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
January 23, 2008, 12:57 pm
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/23/kucinich-starts-new-impeac...
A Goverment of Liars Must Be Brought Down
by Dave Lindorff
January 23, 2008 at 13:11:50
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_dave_lin_080123_a_goverment_of_l...
This ain't NEW, and 5 years late, everybody knew the a-holes were lying. The question now is, what are they going to do about it ?? Unfortunately, the same thing done about all of Bush & Cheney's criminal activities, NOTHING.
Pelosi: "Can't you see were busy here?" http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Contempt_citations_on_hold_as_Dems_0123.html
Those war crimes will not be punished by the Repubs or the Dems.
Or the American public.
They do it because they KNOW they will get away with it.
Bill Moyers is a prophet, he needs his own channel
Only news here is that this truth made it to the MSM. Now, if only it can be acted upon. Of course, that would take some folks in Wash. to show some spine and that's asking a lot unfortunately.
Even MORE evidence for impeachment. So naturally, Pelosi will be booking a vacation.
What if Bush had lied almost 1000 times leading up to the war, killing millions of innocent people and emptying our treasury AND ALSO got a blowjob in the White House.... THEN would we impeach ?
This article is about 5 years too late. Journalists should have been on this story when bush was giving his state of the union speech in 2002 and was lying his ass off about saddam having weapons of mass destruction, he bought yellow cake, had ties to al queda... all lies, now time to send bush and cheney off to jail for those lies.
You can watch Bill Moyers' "Buying The War" at this link:
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.html
More than just the transcript.
We can't let these criminals get away with war crimes, we are better than that. We must demand justice.
bush already bought his 100,000 acres of land in paraguay, to avoid war crimes extradition, and dick cheney will be heading back to his leadership role of halliburton, in Dubia!
Impeach the war criminal treasonous traitors before they get a chance to flee,
DO IT NOW!!!
Rep. Wexler Wants Cheney Impeachment Hearings
http://youtube.com/watch?v=xQDLyKGX268
http://youtube.com/watch?v=3VRRtTA41hg
Representative Dennis J. Kucinich of Ohio may get excluded from Democratic presidential debates, as he has been recently, but no one can deny him the floor in the House.
And today Mr. Kucinich took to the floor to fire off his latest salvo at the Bush administration: his plans to introduce Articles of Impeachment against President Bush on Jan. 28 — the day of Mr. Bush’s State of the Union speech.
More here
I CANT WAIT TILL hillary JAILS chenney for
WAR CRIMES and lies
illegal contracts
CIA leak treason
and coporate hoe profiteering and racketerring charges.........
Rumsfaulure too
W.knew @ 82:
They might consider impeachment for the blow job. Not for the people killed. We probably would not impeach him though. He's a repugnant-con.
Gee, I thought the number would be much higher, but then I lost count at about five hundred!
We've all known about these lies for several years now... and so what has come of it?
With all the lies and broken laws and constitutional violations by the Bush admin you would think the Democrats would do something! After all... the Repubs impeached their guy for a BJ and investigated the Clintons for 8 years.
You would think... but no. The spineless Democrats are NO better than the Republicans… doing nothing is tantamount to tacit approval.
The Dems used to be the party of/for the people. No more, giving the telecoms immunity (soon to be) for the illegal wire tapping a constitutional violation, makes me sick.
Busted! You Lying Shit Weasel!
Try them both for treason during wartime and execute them... and the poetic justice is that the wartime is one they started...
Keith O is covering this tonight, looks like Dick is goin to jail! LOL
with dumbya in tow the following day. ROTFLMAO
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/1/23/172731/046/475/441930
and Nancy pelosi (her face makes me nauseous) still says impeachment is off the table
if what us has done to iraq, was done to israel, bush, cheney, can condi rice, and rumsfeld would be in Hague as war criminal
why the poor iraqis should pay the price
did any1 watch the world economic forum y'day, rice telling a bunch of more lies, shameless
you can watch Al Gore presenting there today at:
http://gaia.world-television.com/wef/worldeconomicforum%5Fannualmeeting2...
After impeachment, take away citizenship. They are not worthy of the title: American.
Personae non gratae.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona_non_grata
and let's be clear here.
DICK is just going to walk away from the mess he made.
In my mind he should not only be impeached, but procecuted, fined and jailed for life!
fucker!
I agree with # 100. Congress -- grow a spine. Impeach, prosecute, fine, and incarcerate. This is a moral "slam dunk."
Everyone with half a brain knew ALL of them were lying. The only ones that didn't were the wealthy, the conservative christian and the zionist jews. The wealthy for the money they could make from this, the conservative christians who thought this would bring on the end of the world, so they could go to heaven without actually dying and the zionist because they want to rule the world.
Fortunately for the bad guys, none of the lies were about receiving a blowjob.
Send the war criminals to the Albert Hess suite at Spandu Casstle.
Not that it's really on topic, but it was Spandau prison, it wasn't a castle, and it would be pretty difficult to send anyone there since it was razed to the ground after Hess's death and is a car park now.
Let's send 'em to Guantanamo instead. Or abu Graib. Better poetic justice.
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