Iraq's WMDs - Lie, Truth, or duped?

[radfringe]

Bush* Inc. repeatedly told us that Iraq had WMDs, this was the reason for invading

recent stories have indicated that Bush* Inc. "may have mislead" us through manipulation of intelligence information. A few lapdogs are spinning the story to blame the intelligence community.

so was Bush* Inc. duped by the intelligence community, was intelligence manipulated, is our intelligence agencies incompetent or did he just plain lie?

[nadinbrzezinski]

1. The buck stops here!

So it really does nto matter, HE SAID THOSE WORDS, he lied.

[durutti]

2. A mix of things...

Intelligence was manipulated by the Bush administration. It was under Clinton, too, but to a much lesser extent.

[Speed8098]

3. The Jackass lied

End of story

[dbt]

4. Not just a lie,

But a Big Lie. The kind Hitler was talking about. The kind that people tend to believe quicker than a small lie.

The sorry bastard in the White Haus knew it was a lie before it fell out of his Reptile lips. And he also knew that the Media Borg would back him regardless of what he said.

Then the sheeple said among themselves, "If it's on the news, it must be true."

:argh:
dbt

[FDRrocks]

5. He lied. New and Improved with half OT Question: Colin Powell

I heard somewhere, I think on Mike Mallay (a very sarcastic source, which is why I ask) that parts of Colin Powells big ass black lie to the UN were plagarized off of someones college paper. Anyone hear anything like that?

It sounds too weird to be true.

Bush was no innocent victim of jack shit. The Iraqis and carpet bombed Afhanis were the real innocent victims of the coprorate puppet flying monkey teflon asshole. America is the half-innocent victim of his pro business antics, almost 1/2 the voters asked for it. But I digress, I go on random rants this early... late... er.

[Damndifino]

8. It was known here in Britain as the "dodgy dossier"

A dossier cobbled together by the British government, including sections copied (complete with typos) from a PhD dissertation which was 10 years out of date. Powell quoted extensively from this dossier in his submission to the UNSC.

[calimary]

6. LIED. Repeat after me - LIED. And that crap about faulty intelligence

is just crap. The only "faulty intelligence" bush got "duped" by was the one-sided business even Colin Powell labeled as bullshit, disregarding ALL THE OTHER INTEL that fortold the results we have now. It's just crap. JUST ANOTHER LIE.

[HFishbine]

12. See this

if you haven't already, then spread the word:

www.ceip.org/intel

[radfringe]

7. kick for the late afternoon crowd n/t

[rustydog]

9. Either excuse by Bush and his Administration

is further proof of Incompetence and reason for removal from office.

[Terwilliger]

10. ok...really...who are these people voting for Bush duped?

how the hell do you leave Bush out of blame?

Was the fact that he AND other members of his administration were caught in LIES not dissuade you?

[Zero Gravitas]

11. Bush Lied

For instance they mentioned quatities of VX etc. that Iraq had. That information came from Kamel Hussien, who in the very same breath he told them how big Iraq's stockpiles were, also told them that the WMDs had been destroyed following the Gulf War.

[Military Brat]

13. He began setting us up for the WMD war in his inaugural address

January 20, 2001: "We will confront weapons of mass destruction, so that a new century is spared new horrors."

Look at the history, words from his own lying mouth:
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/bush/iraqjust.htm

[Josh]

14. One thing to keep in mind: A LOT of people thought there were WMD -

including many countries in the UN, but the CRUCIAL LIE by Bush and his administration was *despite* there being no evidence being found by the inspection teams, they KNEW that Iraq not only HAD the weapons, but was ABOUT TO ATTACK. So we HAD TO GO NOW.

That was the lie. And it was huge.