NEVER FORGET

[WilliamPitt]

The very last quote is what makes this art.

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"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction."

- Dick Cheney, Vice President
Speech to VFW National Convention
8/26/2002

"There is already a mountain of evidence that Saddam Hussein is gathering weapons for the purpose of using them. And adding additional information is like adding a foot to Mount Everest."

- Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary
Response to Question From the Press
9/6/2002

"We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud."

- Condoleezza Rice, US National Security Adviser
CNN Late Edition
9/8/2002

"Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons."

- George W. Bush, President
Speech to the UN General Assembly
9/12/2002

"Iraq has stockpiled biological and chemical weapons, and is rebuilding the facilities used to make more of those weapons. We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons - the very weapons the dictator tells us he does not have."

- George W. Bush, President
Radio Address
10/5/2002

"The Iraqi regime ... possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons. It is seeking nuclear weapons. We know that the regime has produced thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas."

- George W. Bush, President
Cincinnati, Ohio, Speech
10/7/2002

"And surveillance photos reveal that the regime is rebuilding facilities that it had used to produce chemical and biological weapons."

- George W. Bush, President
Cincinnati, Ohio, Speech
10/7/2002

"After 11 years during which we have tried containment, sanctions, inspections, even selected military action, the end result is that Saddam Hussein still has chemical and biological weapons and is increasing his capabilities to make more. And he is moving ever closer to developing a nuclear weapon."

- George W. Bush, President
Cincinnati, Ohio, Speech
10/7/2002

"We've also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas."

- George W. Bush, President
Cincinnati, Ohio, Speech
10/7/2002

"Iraq, despite UN sanctions, maintains an aggressive program to rebuild the infrastructure for its nuclear, chemical, biological, and missile programs. In each instance, Iraq's procurement agents are actively working to obtain both weapons-specific and dual-use materials and technologies critical to their rebuilding and expansion efforts, using front companies and whatever illicit means are at hand."

- John Bolton, Undersecretary of State for Arms Control
Speech to the Hudson Institute
11/1/2002

"Iraq could decide on any given day to provide biological or chemical weapons to a terrorist group or to individual terrorists ... The war on terror will not be won until Iraq is completely and verifiably deprived of weapons of mass destruction."

- Dick Cheney, Vice President
Denver, Address to the Air National Guard
12/1/2002

"If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading the world."

- Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary
Press Briefing
12/2/2002

"The president of the United States and the secretary of defense would not assert as plainly and bluntly as they have that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction if it was not true, and if they did not have a solid basis for saying it."

- Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary
Response to Question From the Press
12/4/2002

"We know for a fact that there are weapons there."

- Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary
Press Briefing
1/9/2003

"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. Our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production."

- George W. Bush, President
State of the Union Address
1/28/2003

"Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent."

- George W. Bush, President
State of the Union Address
1/28/2003

"We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more."

- Colin Powell, Secretary of State
Remarks to the UN Security Council
2/5/2003

"There can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability to rapidly produce more, many more. And he has the ability to dispense these lethal poisons and diseases in ways that can cause massive death and destruction. If biological weapons seem too terrible to contemplate, chemical weapons are equally chilling."

- Colin Powell, Secretary of State
Address to the UN Security Council
2/5/2003

"In Iraq, a dictator is building and hiding weapons that could enable him to dominate the Middle East and intimidate the civilized world - and we will not allow it."

- George W. Bush, President
Speech to the American Enterprise Institute
2/26/2003

"If Iraq had disarmed itself, gotten rid of its weapons of mass destruction over the past 12 years, or over the last several months since (UN Resolution) 1441 was enacted, we would not be facing the crisis that we now have before us ... But the suggestion that we are doing this because we want to go to every country in the Middle East and rearrange all of its pieces is not correct."

- Colin Powell, Secretary of State
Interview With Radio France International
2/28/2003

"So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? I think our judgment has to be clearly not."

- Colin Powell, Secretary of State
Remarks to the UN Security Council
3/7/2003

"Let's talk about the nuclear proposition for a minute. We know that based on intelligence, that has been very, very good at hiding these kinds of efforts. He's had years to get good at it and we know he has been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons. And we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons."

- Dick Cheney, Vice President
"Meet the Press"
3/16/2003

"Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised."

- George W. Bush, President
Address to the Nation
3/17/2003

"Well, there is no question that we have evidence and information that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical particularly ... all this will be made clear in the course of the operation, for whatever duration it takes."

- Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary
Press Briefing
3/21/2003

"One of our top objectives is to find and destroy the WMD. There are a number of sites."

- Victoria Clark, Pentagon Spokeswoman
Press Briefing
3/22/2003

"I have no doubt we're going to find big stores of weapons of mass destruction."

- Kenneth Adelman, Defense Policy Board Member
Washington Post, p. A27
3/23/2003

"We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat."

- Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
ABC Interview
3/30/2003

"We still need to find and secure Iraq's weapons of mass destruction facilities and secure Iraq's borders so we can prevent the flow of weapons of mass destruction materials and senior regime officials out of the country."

- Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
Press Conference
4/9/2003

"You bet we're concerned about it. And one of the reasons it's important is because the nexus between terrorist states with weapons of mass destruction ... and terrorist groups - networks - is a critical link. And the thought that ... some of those materials could leave the country and in the hands of terrorist networks would be a very unhappy prospect. So it is important to us to see that that doesn't happen."

- Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
Press Conference
4/9/2003

"I think you have always heard, and you continue to hear from officials, a measure of high confidence that, indeed, the weapons of mass destruction will be found."

- Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary
Press Briefing
4/10/2003

"But make no mistake - as I said earlier - we have high confidence that they have weapons of mass destruction. That is what this war was about and it is about. And we have high confidence it will be found."

- Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary
Press Briefing
4/10/2003

"Were not going to find anything until we find people who tell us where the things are. And we have that very high on our priority list, to find the people who know. And when we do, then well learn precisely where things were and what was done."

- Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
"Meet the Press"
4/13/2003

"We are learning more as we interrogate or have discussions with Iraqi scientists and people within the Iraqi structure, that perhaps he destroyed some, perhaps he dispersed some. And so we will find them."

- George W. Bush, President
NBC Interview
4/24/2003

"There are people who in large measure have information that we need ... so that we can track down the weapons of mass destruction in that country."

- Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
Press Briefing
4/25/2003

"We'll find them. It'll be a matter of time to do so."

- George W. Bush, President
Remarks to Reporters
5/3/2003

"I'm absolutely sure that there are weapons of mass destruction there and the evidence will be forthcoming. We're just getting it just now."

- Colin Powell, Secretary of State
Remarks to Reporters
5/4/2003

"We never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country."

- Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
Fox News Interview
5/4/2003

"I'm not surprised if we begin to uncover the weapons program of Saddam Hussein - because he had a weapons program."

- George W. Bush, President
Remarks to Reporters
5/6/2003

"U.S. officials never expected that 'we were going to open garages and find' weapons of mass destruction."

- Condoleezza Rice, US National Security Adviser
Reuters Interview
5/12/2003

"We said all along that we will never get to the bottom of the Iraqi WMD program simply by going and searching specific sites, that you'd have to be able to get people who know about the programs to talk to you."

- Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense
Interview With Australian Broadcasting
5/13/2003

"It's going to take time to find them, but we know he had them. And whether he destroyed them, moved them or hid them, we're going to find out the truth. One thing is for certain: Saddam Hussein no longer threatens America with weapons of mass destruction."

- George W. Bush, President
Speech at a Weapons Factory in Ohio
5/25/2003

"They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer."

- Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
Remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations
5/27/2003

"For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction (as justification for invading Iraq) because it was the one reason everyone could agree on."

- Paul Wolfowitz, Deputy Secretary of Defense
Vanity Fair Interview
5/28/2003

"The President is indeed satisfied with the intelligence that he received. And I think that's borne out by the fact that, just as Secretary Powell described at the United Nations, we have found the bio trucks that can be used only for the purpose of producing biological weapons. That's proof-perfect that the intelligence in that regard was right on target."

- Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary
Press Briefing
5/29/2003

"We have teams of people that are out looking. They've investigated a number of sites. And within the last week or two, they have in fact captured and have in custody two of the mobile trailers that Secretary Powell talked about at the United Nations as being biological weapons laboratories."

- Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
Infinity Radio Interview
5/30/2003

"But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong, we found them."

- George W. Bush, President
Interview With TVP Poland
5/30/2003

"You remember when Colin Powell stood up in front of the world, and he said Iraq has got laboratories, mobile labs to build biological weapons ... 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."

- George W. Bush, President
Press Briefing
5/30/2003

"This wasn't material I was making up, it came from the intelligence community."

- Colin Powell, Secretary of State
Press Briefing
6/2/2003

"We recently found two mobile biological weapons facilities which were capable of producing biological agents. This is the man who spent decades hiding tools of mass murder. He knew the inspectors were looking for them. You know better than me he's got a big country in which to hide them. We're on the look. We'll reveal the truth."

- George W. Bush, President
Camp Sayliya, Qatar
6/5/2003

"I would put before you Exhibit A, the mobile biological labs that we have found. People are saying, 'Well, are they truly mobile biological labs?' Yes, they are. And the DCI, George Tenet, Director of Central Intelligence, stands behind that assessment."

- Colin Powell, Secretary of State
Fox News Interview
6/8/2003

"No one ever said that we knew precisely where all of these agents were, where they were stored."

- Condoleezza Rice, US National Security Adviser
"Meet the Press"
6/8/2003

"What the president has said is because it's been the long-standing view of numerous people, not only in this country, not only in this administration, but around the world, including at the United Nations, who came to those conclusions ... And the president is not going to engage in the rewriting of history that others may be trying to engage in."

- Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary
Response to Question From the Press
6/9/2003

"Iraq had a weapons program ... Intelligence throughout the decade showed they had a weapons program. I am absolutely convinced with time we'll find out they did have a weapons program."

- George W. Bush, President
Comment to Reporters
6/9/2003

"The biological weapons labs that we believe strongly are biological weapons labs, we didn't find any biological weapons with those labs. But should that give us any comfort? Not at all. Those were labs that could produce biological weapons whenever Saddam Hussein might have wanted to have a biological weapons inventory."

- Colin Powell, Secretary of State
Associated Press Interview
6/12/2003

"My personal view is that their intelligence has been, I'm sure, imperfect, but good. In other words, I think the intelligence was correct in general, and that you always will find out precisely what it was once you get on the ground and have a chance to talk to people and explore it, and I think that will happen."

- Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
Press Briefing
6/18/2003

"I have reason, every reason, to believe that the intelligence that we were operating off was correct and that we will, in fact, find weapons or evidence of weapons, programs, that are conclusive. But that's just a matter of time ... It's now less than eight weeks since the end of major combat in Iraq and I believe that patience will prove to be a virtue."

- Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
Pentagon Media Briefing
6/24/2003

MS. BLOCK: There were no toxins found in those trailers.

SECRETARY POWELL: Which could mean one of several things: one, they hadn't been used yet to develop toxins; or, secondly, they had been sterilized so thoroughly that there is no residual left. It may well be that they hadn't been used yet.

- Colin Powell, Secretary of State
"All Things Considered" Interview
6/27/2003

"That was the concern we had with Saddam Hussein. Not only did he have weapons - and we'll uncover not only his weapons but all of his weapons programs - he never lost the intent to have these kinds of weapons."

- Colin Powell, Secretary of State
"All Things Considered" Interview
6/27/2003

"I think the burden is on those people who think he didn't have weapons of mass destruction to tell the world where they are."

- Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary
Press Briefing
7/9/2003

http://archive.truthout.org/032009J

[samsingh]

1. i haven't

thanks for the great post

[Dreamer Tatum]

2. ALSO DON'T FORGET TO BE HONEST

http://www.snopes.com/politics/war/wmdquotes.asp

[Rex]

25. .

[mountain grammy]

42. Yep, been beating those war drums for years. We refuse to remove ourselves from

other countries' business. Only United Nations troops and aid should be sent into nations in crisis. America has become the rogue nation with weapons of mass destruction, and there's no doubt WE have them.
Thanks for your post. We need to be reminded of the complicity here. I remember the talk about Saddam during the Clinton administration, and I remember thinking, wasn't he our guy? Like the Shah was our guy? and, later, even like bin Laden was our guy? Don't even get started on South America and the despots we put in power there. No Commies in our back yard, by God. What's a few hundred thousand tortured or murdered civilians have to do with our interests?
Were those Republicans or Democrats supporting and helping dictators and "freedom fighters" all over the world? When we say "both sides do it," in cases of destructive foreign policies, both sides have and still do.

[cyberswede]

3. Excellent reminders

Thanks for putting this together.

[csziggy]

4. Thank you, WilliamPitt, for calling them out then and now

Thank you for reminding us of how many lies so many in the Bush-Cheney administration told us in the past and continue to push even now, even though they are proven to be liars.

[onehandle]

5. Their assets should be seized and put towards the national debt. nt

[aquart]

8. RICO.

[rhett o rick]

44. Dreamer. "They" belong to the elite. The President and most of Congress also belong

to the elite. Who is going to punish members of the elite? Certainly not the elite.

[midnight]

65. I like this idea... Do we include the corporations and the inside trading wealth too?

[onehandle]

66. Emperor Onehandle would. nt

[midnight]

69. Awsome....

[Leslie Valley]

6. How could we ever forget

And why are certain parties given a pass?

Some people seem to have a bit of a blind spot when it comes to being lied to.

[mikeysnot]

9. I'm sorry

please point out where Gore is lying?

[OldDem2012]

15. Well, to be honest,....

....you're being given a pass.

Don't worry, we won't forget.

[SidDithers]

19. ben_meyers?...nt

Sid

[H2O Man]

27. clown passages

[xxqqqzme]

28. February 17, 1998 -

How does that compare to the drum beats started by the neocons in 2002? I do not recall Clinton invading Iraq? It was the UN inspectors who told the world the were no WMDs in Iraq The inspectors left because dumbya was going to start bombing.

[xtraxritical]

30. Yep

[Progressive dog]

63. What intelligence was Gore lying about?

Did I miss it?

[aquart]

7. Why did no one ever question al qaida's supposed expertise in chemical weapons?

A guerrilla group teaching a government? And nobody laughed?

[neverforget]

10. you called?

[RevStPatrick]

11. I assumed at the time that these people had receipts...

I knew the Iraq War was bullshit, just like the first one.
However, I assumed they would find something, because I assumed they had sales receipts.

Let's put it this way... Poppy learned well from Prescott and Sam and the Walkers... Sell your enemy the arms and then destroy them with the arms you've sold to yourself. Viola! Double profits!

I admit I was a bit surprised when they found absolutely nothing.
I expected that these people had been busy during the Clinton years selling Saddam arms under the table, and that they would find something that they had provided him. They weren't even smart enough to pull that off...

[11 Bravo]

12. Holy shit! That's a LOT of lies! Thanks for putting this together, Will. K&R

[Hissyspit]

31. It was a lie a day with those people.

It was amazing. It never stopped.

[Warren Stupidity]

13. That last one is the best.

I think the burden is on those people who think he didn't have weapons of mass destruction to tell the world where they are.

Ya gotta love the game they played. No level of bullshit was out of bounds.

[moondust]

14. Thank you.

I vote to put them in solitary confinement and play these quotes on an endless loop in their cells.

[malaise]

16. We won't

Rec

[Greybnk48]

17. I haven't and never will n/t

[Scurrilous]

18. K & R

[kentuck]

20. That fucking smirking chimp...

can go to hell.

[peace frog]

33. ... and take the rest of the criminals with him

Enjoy your stay, boys, although it's not punishment enough for the likes of you.

[rivegauche]

21. I cannot even describe the level of acid rage

these speeches had for me, at those times. I KNEW it was total pile of bullshit, all of it. And I was right. There was NOTHING, not a fucking thing. Thousands and thousands of our people and innocent civilians were killed, for what? For what?

[JDPriestly]

22. On March 7, 2003, Hans Blix reported to the UN on behalf of the

United Nations Inspection Team. Here is his report of that date:

Inspections in Iraq resumed on 27 November 2002. In matters relating to process, notably prompt access to sites, we have faced relatively few difficulties and certainly much less than those that were faced by UNSCOM in the period 1991 to 1998. This may well be due to the strong outside pressure.

Some practical matters, which were not settled by the talks, Dr. ElBaradei and I had with the Iraqi side in Vienna prior to inspections or in resolution 1441 (2002), have been resolved at meetings, which we have had in Baghdad. Initial difficulties raised by the Iraqi side about helicopters and aerial surveillance planes operating in the no-fly zones were overcome. This is not to say that the operation of inspections is free from frictions, but at this juncture we are able to perform professional no-notice inspections all over Iraq and to increase aerial surveillance.

. . . .

As I noted on 14 February, intelligence authorities have claimed that weapons of mass destruction are moved around Iraq by trucks and, in particular, that there are mobile production units for biological weapons. The Iraqi side states that such activities do not exist. Several inspections have taken place at declared and undeclared sites in relation to mobile production facilities. Food testing mobile laboratories and mobile workshops have been seen, as well as large containers with seed processing equipment. No evidence of proscribed activities have so far been found. Iraq is expected to assist in the development of credible ways to conduct random checks of ground transportation.

There have been reports, denied from the Iraqi side, that proscribed activities are conducted underground. Iraq should provide information on any underground structure suitable for the production or storage of WMD. During inspections of declared or undeclared facilities, inspection teams have examined building structures for any possible underground facilities. In addition, ground penetrating radar equipment was used in several specific locations. No underground facilities for chemical or biological production or storage were found so far.

http://www.un.org/Depts/unmovic/SC7asdelivered.htm

The Bush administration moved quickly to make certain that the UN Inspection Team would not provide its ultimate verdict that Iraq had no WMDs before George Bush and his co-conspirators (seriously) could send troops into Iraq.

---
From the NYTimes, July 2010:

Mr. Blix, the Swedish diplomat who led the United Nations body that scoured Iraq for traces of Saddam Hussein’s banned weapons program, used the word “absurd” on several occasions to describe American arguments for going to war. He also described Britain, the United States’ main ally in the invasion, as “a prisoner on the American train.”

. . . .

Mr. Blix, 82, is customarily courtly, in the way of the Cambridge-educated international lawyer he was before he became Sweden’s foreign minister in the late 1970s. But appearing before the British inquiry as the first non-British witness to speak in a public session, his quiet, detailed account of the weapons inspections — and the decision to go to war before inspections were completed — was punctuated by acerbic observations about the American role.

He repeatedly referred to the American president as “Bush,” without using his title or an honorific, while referring to Tony Blair, the British prime minister who joined the invasion, as “Mr. Blair.” He criticized both leaders, as he has before, for resting their case for going to war on intelligence about Iraq’s weapons programs that he described as poor.

“I have never questioned the good faith of Mr. Blair, or Mr. Bush,” he said at one point. “What I questioned was the good judgment, particularly of Bush, but also about Mr. Blair to some extent.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/28/world/europe/28blix.html?ref=hansblix&_r=0

[Solly Mack]

23. Fuckers.

POS war criminals.

[GoCubsGo]

24. The one thing I will remember most: Colin Powell's "proof" of "mobile weapons labs"

His proof was nothing but a fucking cartoon:



I had my doubts before the hearings, but that sealed it. And, it also cost Powell what little respect I had for him at that point.

[rivegauche]

34. Gawd that is PITIFUL. nt

[grantcart]

41. It was agonizingly stupid.

First that it came from a source called "Curveball" who was so named because he was found to be aggressively opportunistic and fanciful.

Second is that Hussein's paranoia would never have allowed valuable weapons to wonder around wi here they could be turned against him.

Third the last place Iraqi's would have placed labs is outside in the line of sight with American satellites.

Fourth no one would have agreed to have a mobile sight making toxic gas wandering around on the bumpy roads of Baghdad.

Fifth and this really is the killer, the supposed reason that they were mobile is that they could be moved around to avoid the inspectors. What no one apparently pointed out is that the production mechanism is a relatively small part of the manufacturing train. There would still be large amounts of raw material and finished product sitting around, much larger in volume than the production mechanism, that would be found by the rigorous inspection regime.

[GoCubsGo]

46. Third...EXACTLY!!!

Not to mention that our spy satellites can read a license plate from miles in space. One would think that if said "mobile labs" really existed, we'd be able to get actual photos of them, instead of having to use goddamn cartoons.

And, Sixth, anybody who knows anything about centrifuges knows that even low-tech centrifuges can't take driving around on bumpy roads without constantly getting knocked out of whack.

I STILL can't believe people actually bought into that shit.

[Blanks]

49. What is even more frustrating...

is that people are upset about Clinton lying, but these lies were necessary.

[Wolf Frankula]

52. If You Magnify those images enough

You will see 'Lionel' plainly printed on them.

Wolf

[mn9driver]

26. My personal favorite; right out of the Torquemada playbook:

"If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading the world."

- Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary
Press Briefing
12/2/2002

[jpak]

29. FAUX News: Iraqi Drones May Target U.S. Cities Feb 24, 2002

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,79450,00.html

Iraq could be planning a chemical or biological attack on American cities through the use of remote-controlled "drone" planes equipped with GPS tracking maps, according to U.S. intelligence.

The information about Iraq's unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) program has caused a "real concern" among defense personnel, senior U.S. officials tell Fox News. They're worried that these vehicles have already been, or could be, transported inside the United States to be used in an attack, although there is no proof that this has happened.

Secretary of State Colin Powell showed a picture of a small drone plane during his presentation to the U.N. Security Council earlier this month.

"UAVs outfitted with spray tanks constitute an ideal method for launching a terrorist attack using biological weapons," Powell said during his speech. "Iraq could use these small UAVs, which have a wingspan of only a few meters, to deliver biological agents to its neighbors or, if transported, to other countries, including the United States."

<more>

FAUX looped a video of Bush claiming that "Iraq has unmanned aircraft that can target America". 24/7 thereafter.

[kairos12]

32. The reality is Faux News targets US Cities--still does

[judesedit]

35. Thank you for compiling this total act of criminality. These people should be in prison for treason.

[erronis]

36. I would like the children of these liars to know

That their parents were responsible for the murder of thousands of Americans, Iraqi's, and people from around the world.

That they were responsible for dragging down whatever credibility this country might have had into their own fetid sewage to serve their own purposes (not the country's, not the world's - personal greed and stupidity.)

I would like the children and grandchildren of Cheney, Bush, Fleischer, Rice, Feith, Rumsfeld to be aware that they come from a polluted lineage.

Good luck living with that.

WP: Thanks for a great compendium of inane/insane quotes. I'd like to see something similar done with the editorial pages of our great newspapers.

[rhett o rick]

45. Maybe you dont understand. Their children were raised with the elite whose shit dont stink.

They are taught to rationalize that shit happens to the masses. It's too bad, but it's just one of those things. They dont have moral compasses. They might not want us to die, but they sure as hell dont give a shit if we do.

[cantbeserious]

37. I Have Not Forgotten - Why Aren't These Men Behind Bars?

eom

[chuckstevens]

38. We've had no evidence....

"We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was part of the September 11th". George W. Bush later famously stated. That was the moment that both Bush and Cheney should have been impeached, sent to the World Court in the Hague, tried, convicted, and executed for war crimes.

I know that many DUers love Nancy Pelosi, but when she said impeachment was "off the table", our democracy died and future leaders (Probably Republicans) will commit major crimes with the knowledge that they will get away with it.

[Raksha]

51. I have not forgotten the complicity of the Democrats, as well as the lies of the Bush gang.

I have never forgiven Nancy Pelosi for taking impeachment "off the table" and I never will.

[grantcart]

39. Ari Fleischer is clearly the stupidest person to ever rise to a high level White House position.

[gademocrat7]

40. I totally agree.

[mountain grammy]

43. Iraq War I, my son was serving on the USS Wisconsin in the Persian Gulf

I was against him going into the military, but he was determined and I was proud and scared to death. My son came home fine just like my husband came home from Vietnam fine. We are blessed that neither had to die or be disabled due to some stupid politician's war. Damn them all and their fucking wars!

[Sinistrous]

47. I knew we were being lied to when bushcheneyrumsfield kept insisting that Saddam

prove a negative - i.e.: that he (Saddam) did NOT have WMD. Proving which, of course is a logical impossibility.

And their cavalier dismissals of Saddam's statements and documentation regarding Iraqi WMD to the UN and the US brought me to a boiling rage.

[BobbyBoring]

48. Thanx Will!

We will never forget, but thanks for compiling the volume of lies in one neat basket1

[Rosa Luxemburg]

50. People believed them because of 9/11 attacks

it would have been much harder to convince people if 9/11 hadn't happened.

[Wolf Frankula]

53. NEVER FORGET & NEVER FORGIVE

Especially not at the ballot box!

Wolf

[spanone]

54. ....the deaths that resluted...beyond hubris....criminal

we invaded a soveriegn nation for no good reason. none.

[Permanut]

55. And now Cheney is still spewing BS..

he was just on the Hannity show last week whining about the Benghazi incident, and how dishonest President Obama is. And Hannity was kissing his, we'll say, boots. Creepy; seems like these coprolites used to just stay in their mother's basements and quietly eat their Cheetos. Now they wave their insanity around like a Boy Scout badge, and cause such incredible hurt and destruction. And get a book deal.

[drynberg]

56. WHY DID WE GET LIED TO SO SO OFTEN, REPEATEDLY?

The answer is simple. It works. Just keep telling the same friggin' lies and pretty soon, they "stick"!

[Hotler]

57. I'll never forget but, for the most part the American people have.......

as long as they have their football and NASCAR all is well.

[lonestarnot]

58. No need for you to every worry about that William Pitt!

I will NEVER forget.

[rustydog]

59. Project for a New American Century anyone? anyone?

Whose signatures were on that document?

[Raster]

70. Here are/were the "primaries" of the PNAC

Elliott Abrams * Gary Bauer * William J. Bennett * Jeb Bush

Dick Cheney * Eliot A. Cohen * Midge Decter * Paula Dobriansky * Steve Forbes

Aaron Friedberg * Francis Fukuyama * Frank Gaffney * Fred C. Ikle

Donald Kagan * Zalmay Khalilzad * I. Lewis Libby * Norman Podhoretz

Dan Quayle * Peter W. Rodman * Stephen P. Rosen * Henry S. Rowen

Donald Rumsfeld * Vin Weber * George Weigel * Paul Wolfowitz

[amuse bouche]

60. Yes

Never forget

[Paladin]

61. Another Public Service From WillPitt. Thanks So Much. (nt)

[Rider3]

62. Wow..

I've read all these quotes before, but to see them all in one spot, one after the other, takes my breath away.

[Raster]

64. Two words: WAR CRIMES!

Thank you, Will!

[pauldp]

67. So are we allowed to use the "C" word yet?

Conspiracy to commit mass murder for profit.

[Raster]

71. Yes!

"Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event––like a new Pearl Harbor".