David Sirota and Christy Harvey: The Knew (WMD claims were false)

[Martin Eden]

This article chronicles the lies, and why they knew they were lies at the time. With numerous links supporting their article, Sirota and Harvey make a case against the Bush administration that is very difficult to dispute.

They Knew...

Despite the Whitewash, We Now Know that the Bush Administration was Warned Before the War That Its Iraq Claims were Weak

by David Sirota and Christy Harvey

If desperation is ugly, then Washington, D.C. today is downright hideous.

As the 9/11 Commission recently reported, there was “no credible evidence” of a collaborative relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda. Similarly, no weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq. With U.S. casualties mounting in an election year, the White House is grasping at straws to avoid being held accountable for its dishonesty.

The whitewash already has started: In July, Republicans on the Senate Intelligence Committee released a controversial report blaming the CIA for the mess. The panel conveniently refuses to evaluate what the White House did with the information it was given or how the White House set up its own special team of Pentagon political appointees (called the Office of Special Plans) to circumvent well-established intelligence channels. And Vice President Dick Cheney continues to say without a shred of proof that there is “overwhelming evidence” justifying the administration’s pre-war charges.

But as author Flannery O’Conner noted, “Truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” That means no matter how much defensive spin spews from the White House, the Bush administration cannot escape the documented fact that it was clearly warned before the war that its rationale for invading Iraq was weak.

Top administration officials repeatedly ignored warnings that their assertions about Iraq’s supposed Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) and connections to al Qaeda were overstated. In some cases, they were told their claims were wholly without merit, yet they went ahead and made them anyway. Even the Senate report admits that the White House “misrepresented” classified intelligence by eliminating references to contradictory assertions.

In short, they knew they were misleading America.

And they did not care.
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This single article has almost everything you need to prove that BUSH LIED!!!
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0804-11.htm

[mefoolonhill]

1. great, great article.....

Hey everybody- read this one. It's the definitive case against the Bush administration's war on Iraq. These two authors nail every lie, and provide tons of evidence. This is some badass journalism !

[Disturbed]

2. The Freeptards don't care and...

most Americans are too apathetic to pay attention. Saddam was a bad man. Iraqis are free. Only terrorists in Iraq are fighting against freedom. Case closed.

[bogey18]

3. It is a great article

and you are right, disturbed. The only people willing to read it are the ones that don't need to.

I expect the coalition of hate groups and crazies the Repubs have putr together to stay firmly on the Bush side - the racists, the fanatical right to lifers, the gun nuts.

I also expect the dishonest, the people behind this hoodwinking of america to stay the course - the neocons, the Repub ghouls who cannot open their mouths without lying, to not change in any way.

What has truly got me disenheartened is the true conservatives, the people you expect to have some shred of integrity, the John McCains - why are they continuing to support this?

[Martin Eden]

4. Kick

There's a lot of great resources in here -- worth bookmarking.

[Martin Eden]

5. One more kick

There's a lot of great stuff in here, for those who may have missed it.