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Tuesday, October 02, 2007

Who Believes What Bush Says About Iran?

In every court in the United States of America, once a witness is found to have lied, then none of their ongoing testimony has to be accepted as the truth either. If we Americans are stupid enough to believe Chicken Little Bush and his buddy Cheney, who think that if they keep repeating things long enough and loud enough that it makes it truth, then we deserve to believe the sky is falling. Unfortunately, I spoke with someone today who was shocked when I said that Al Qaeda in Iraq was a lie. Amazing….

Let's take a short look at the history of the lies. These are lies that were not based in any truth, but were lies in which the truth was manipulated or just plainly fabricated to support a war that has killed hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi's, and who truly knows how many Americans. Remember, our death tolls do not take into consideration the tens of thousands of contract killers, mercenaries, we have sent to Iraq, that do not answer to anyone, but to their own murder squads, and are not reported in death tolls.

Remember, when we hear the lies that say, Muslim sects are blowing up Mosques in Iraq, do you really believe that? If so, you must be American.

When we hear that Iranian weapons were found in Iraq, do you really believe that? If so, you must be an American.

When we hear that Iran is going to nuke Israel and take out Lebanon, Syria and Palestine with it, do you really believe it, you must be an American.


Al Qaeda in Iraq…

In late 2001, Cheney said it was "pretty well confirmed" that Sept. 11 mastermind Mohamed Atta met with a senior Iraqi intelligence official before the attacks, in April 2000 in Prague.

Bush, in his speech aboard an aircraft carrier on May 1, 2003, asserted: "The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. We've removed an ally of al Qaeda and cut off a source of terrorist funding."

Al Qaeda-Hussein Link Is Dismissed
By Walter Pincus and Dana Milbank
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, June 17, 2004; Page A01

The Sept. 11 commission reported yesterday that it has found no "collaborative relationship" between Iraq and al Qaeda, challenging one of the Bush administration's main justifications for the war in Iraq.

Along with the contention that Saddam Hussein was stockpiling weapons of mass destruction, President Bush, Vice President Cheney and other top administration officials have often asserted that there were extensive ties between Hussein's government and Osama bin Laden's terrorist network; earlier this year, Cheney said evidence of a link was "overwhelming."

But the report of the commission's staff, based on its access to all relevant classified information, said that there had been contacts between Iraq and al Qaeda but no cooperation. In yesterday's hearing of the panel, formally known as the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, a senior FBI official and a senior CIA analyst concurred with the finding.
Next….

Niger Uranium Connection…

During the 2003 State of the Union speech, U.S. President George W. Bush said, "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."



Diplomat: U.S. knew uranium report was false

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A former U.S. diplomat said Sunday he told the Bush administration that Iraq had not tried to buy uranium from Niger in the late 1990s to develop nuclear weapons.
Former Ambassador to Gabon Joseph Wilson told NBC's "Meet the Press" he informed the CIA and the State Department that such information was false months before U.S. and British officials used it during the debate that led to war.

Weapons of Mass Destruction

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
May 29, 2003

Interview of the President by TVP, Poland
The Library

Q But, still, those countries who didn't support the Iraqi Freedom operation use the same argument, weapons of mass destruction haven't been found. So what argument will you use now to justify this war?

THE PRESIDENT: We found the weapons of mass destruction.

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
March 19, 2003

President Bush Addresses the Nation
The Oval Office

Our nation enters this conflict reluctantly -- yet, our purpose is sure. The people of the United States and our friends and allies will not live at the mercy of an outlaw regime that threatens the peace with weapons of mass murder.


Bush, Cheney admit Iraq had no WMD, take new tack

They cite oil-for-food scam as justification for invasion
By Scott Lindlaw
ASSOCIATED PRESS
October 8, 2004

WASHINGTON – President Bush and his vice president conceded yesterday in the clearest terms yet that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, trying to shift the Iraq war debate to a new issue – whether the invasion was justified because Hussein was abusing a U.N. oil-for-food program.
Bush's response was his first reaction to a report released Wednesday by Charles Duelfer, the CIA's top weapons inspector, that contradicted the White House's main argument for invading Iraq.

Iraq – 9/11 connection

MR. RUSSERT: The Washington Post asked the American people about Saddam Hussein, and this is what they said: 69 percent said he was involved in the September 11 attacks. Are you surprised by that?
VICE PRES. CHENEY: No. I think it's not surprising that people make that connection.
MR. RUSSERT: But is there a connection?
VICE PRES.Cheney: Now, is there a connection between the Iraqi government and the original World Trade Center bombing in '93? We know, as I say, that one of the perpetrators of that act did, in fact, receive support from the Iraqi government after the fact. With respect to 9/11, of course, we've had the story that's been public out there. The Czechs alleged that Mohamed Atta, the lead attacker, met in Prague with a senior Iraqi intelligence official five months before the attack.

In September, Cheney said on NBC's "Meet the Press": "If we're successful in Iraq . . . then we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of the terrorists who had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11."

Speaking about Iraq's alleged links to al Qaeda and the Sept. 11 attacks, Cheney connected Iraq to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing by saying that newly found Iraqi intelligence files in Baghdad showed that a participant in the bombing returned to Iraq and "probably also received financing from the Iraqi government as well as safe haven." He added: "The Iraqi government or the Iraqi intelligence service had a relationship with al Qaeda that stretched back through most of the decade of the '90s."

Al Qaeda-Hussein Link Is Dismissed
By Walter Pincus and Dana Milbank
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, June 17, 2004; Page A01

Shortly after Cheney asserted these links, Bush contradicted him, saying: "We've had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with the September 11th." But Bush added: "There's no question that Saddam Hussein had al Qaeda ties." (See Hussein/Al Qaeda connection above, sorry the lies intertwine)

As for the Atta meeting in Prague mentioned by Cheney, the commission staff concluded: "We do not believe that such a meeting occurred." It cited FBI photographic and telephone evidence, along with Czech and U.S. investigations, as well as reports from detainees, including the Iraqi official with whom Atta was alleged to have met.

Do I need to continue…..

If you are still not convinced, visit Claims and Facts: Rhetoric, Reality and the War in Iraq

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