Bush lied opinion piece..

[Bigmack]

Another nail in the coffin of the "Bush didn't lie... everybody believed there were WMDs." theory. Read the whole thing, it's a great short piece.
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Monday, November 14, 2005
So you want details about who lied
JAMES BRUNER SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER GUEST COLUMNIST

Marty McNett of Burlington (Letters, Wednesday) believes there is no proof that President Bush lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, so we should lay off claims that he did. I refer McNett and anyone else who is laboring under that misconception to read "Iraq On The Record: The Bush Administration's Public Statements On Iraq," prepared by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform -- Minority Staff Special Investigations Division, March 16, 2004.

This 36-page report goes into great detail about outright false and deceptive public statements by Bush (55 misleading statements), Vice President Dick Cheney (51), former Secretary of State Colin Powell (50), former National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice (29) and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (52) on the subject. These 237 misleading statements were made in a variety of forums (53 interviews, 40 speeches, 26 news conferences and briefings, four written statements and articles and two appearances before Congress) beginning at least a year before the war began, and their frequency peaked at key decision-making points.

Cheney made perhaps the single-most egregious statement about Iraq's nuclear capabilities, claiming: "We know he has been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons. And we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons." He made this statement just three days before the war. He did not admit until Sept. 14, 2003, that his statement was wrong and that he "did misspeak."

The words "mushroom cloud" echoed time and again in speech after speech by key members of the administration from that point on until the beginning of hostilities. If that isn't lying, I don't know what is.

James Bruner lives in Oak Harbor. He is a retired Air Force major and was a technical editor and writer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for 11 years.

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/248055_firstperson14.html

[BeyondThePale]

1. Is there a link to the House report?

I refer McNett and anyone else who is laboring under that misconception to read "Iraq On The Record: The Bush Administration's Public Statements On Iraq," prepared by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform -- Minority Staff Special Investigations Division, March 16, 2004.

[Nite Owl]

2. Think this is it

Waxman's site. Henry Waxman makes you want to be able to clone some people!

http://democrats.reform.house.gov/IraqOnTheRecord/

[BeyondThePale]

4. cool beans!

Thanks!

[Tamarin]

3. I tried to make a link for you, but it didn't work.

I googled Iraq on the Record and it brings up a Pdf file. I'm reading it now.

[BeyondThePale]

5. Thanks! Check out Nite Owl's link above

Happy reading!

[Tamarin]

6. You're welcome, that's it. I've bookmarked it,

it is an excellent resource. Looks as though Waxman's office had done much of the Phase II Committee's work already. Maybe they (Phase II Committee) should just adopt this, LOL.