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Why did the Bush administration lie to the public about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq?
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Bush Sought ‘Way' To Invade Iraq?
A year ago, Paul O'Neill was fired from his job as George Bush's Treasury Secretary for disagreeing too many times with the president's policy on tax cuts. Now, O'Neill - who is known for speaking his mind - talks for the first time about his two years inside the Bush administration. His story is the centerpiece of a new book being published this week about the way the Bush White House is run.
Bush Regime retaliates against O'Neill
The U.S. Treasury requested a probe on Monday of how a possibly secret document appeared in a televised interview of Paul O'Neill, as a book criticizing the Bush administration that uses material supplied by the ex-Treasury secretary hits the stores.
Bush Disputes Ex-Official's Claim That Iraq War Was Early Goal
WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 — President Bush on Monday disputed a suggestion by Paul H. O'Neill, the former Treasury secretary, that the White House was looking for a reason to go to war with Iraq from the very beginning of his administration.
Truth About Iraq Known; Fallout Isn't
Truth is like water. You can try to dam it, block it, plug it and obstruct it, but it never stops trying to run free.
And thank goodness for that.
O'Neill, Powell Expose the Iraq Ruse
The credibility of the Bush Administration's Iraq policy took several hits in the last few days. First, there was the "WMD in Iraq" report from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, which concludes: "Administration officials systematically misrepresented the threat" that Iraq posed.
The Barreling Bushes
Dynasties in American politics are dangerous. We saw it with the Kennedys, we may well see it with the Clintons and we're certainly seeing it with the Bushes. Between now and the November election, it's crucial that Americans come to understand how four generations of the current president's family have embroiled the United States in the Middle East through CIA connections, arms shipments, rogue banks, inherited war policies and personal financial links.
Bush's Deception on Iraq
Most Americans have never heard of the Joint Captured Materiel Exploitation Group. Let me bring them up to speed: It is the 400-member military team whose job was to search every inch of Iraq for any and all military equipment. Well, guess what? The Bush administration has quietly pulled the team out of Iraq. Many members are back on U.S. soil, and others have been reassigned to duties related to insurgent fighters in Iraq.
Mounting Evidence Shows Iraq Didn't Have WMDs
THIS WAS an important week to remember that Vice President Dick Cheney once said, "There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction." And that President Bush once said there is "no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised." And especially that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld once said, "We know where they are."
Those WMDs: Bush's Case Weakens Further
When will George W. Bush say, "We were wrong on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction"? The evidence--or lack of evidence--continues to mount suggesting that Bush and his aides made false statements about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction before the war. Remember all that alarmist rhetoric? In an October 2002 speech, Bush said Iraq had a "massive stockpile" of weapons of mass destruction. Vice President Dick Cheney claimed "there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction...that he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us." In his famous presentation to the United Nations Security Council, Secretary of State Colin Powell declared, "Our conservative estimate is that Iraq, today, has a stockpile of between 100 and 500 tons of chemical weapons agent."
The 16 Words Weren't
Just a Data Point
You might think that a president facing a decision to go to war, a war that has now claimed about 230 American lives and killed thousands of Iraqi civilians and soldiers, might have gone a little deeper than a briefing on his best intelligence. Bush has shown no capacity for reflection, especially after he said on Oct. 7, 2002, ''Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun, that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.''
Bush's Nose is Growing;
Nobody Cares
t has been exactly one week since the Washington Post ran a page one story quoting U.S. President George W. Bush as saying that the reason the U.S., "along with other nations,'' invaded Iraq was because its brutal vicious dictator would not permit any weapons inspections.
The Tragic Cost of
a Rash Iraq War
British scientist David Kelly should be alive today. But like thousands of others, he has become a casualty of the American/British rush to make war on Iraq. The Defense ministry microbiologist and former United Nations weapons inspector killed himself last week after being sucked into a nasty fight between the government and the media.
Passing It Along
Here's another sentence in George Bush's State of the Union address that wasn't true: "We will not deny, we will not ignore, we will not pass along our problems to other Congresses, to other presidents and other generations."
A White House Smear
Did senior Bush officials blow the cover of a US intelligence officer working covertly in a field of vital importance to national security--and break the law--in order to strike at a Bush administration critic and intimidate others? It sure looks that way, if conservative journalist Bob Novak can be trusted.
Bush, Iraq, Gay Marriage
and Dithering Dems
The elephant in the living room isn't just standing there pretending to be invisible anymore. It's trumpeting, stamping, swinging its trunk and knocking over lamps and furniture. It's dropping dung faster than the handlers can shovel. Even the most oblivious among us, who'd prefer to go on sipping tea, munching watercress sandwiches and ignoring the obvious, can no longer avoid seeing, and smelling, the appalling mess.
Deceit Runs Deep
That's Condoleezza Rice's official assessment of the scandal over White House deception regarding Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. It's 16 words. It was an intelligence failure. There were problems in vetting the information. But the claims were "technically accurate." And we liberated the people of Iraq.
Timeline:
Dr David Kelly
At 5.55pm the government issues a statement saying a Ministry of Defence official has come forward and admitted meeting BBC defence correspondent Andrew Gilligan on May 22. The official said he met Gilligan, whom he had known for "some months", at a central London hotel, and that he had been asked about weapons of mass destruction and Alastair Campbell.
It is Time for Bush
to be Held Accountable
July 13, 1973. This was the day that the US public found out about the audiotapes then President Nixon was making in the White House. Alexander Butterfield, the White House appointments secretary, revealed under questioning by the Senate Watergate Committee that Tricky Dick recorded every single conversation and telephone that occurred in his office.
If
one war 'fact' on Iraq is false, what of others?
A president's State of the Union address is a solemn rite, an opportunity for our nation's leader to speak directly to the assembled members of Congress and to his fellow citizens. The occasion takes on an even heavier burden when a president uses the speech to press for war against another nation.
Iraq
weapons 'unlikely to be found'
BBC political editor Andrew Marr said "very senior sources" in Whitehall had virtually ruled out the possibility of finding the weapons. They believe they did exist - but were hidden or destroyed by Saddam Hussein before the war.
The
Niger connection: what we know, what we don't know, and what
we may never be told
Pressure was mounting on the Government and the Bush administration last night for a full investigation into their claims that Saddam Hussein sought uranium from Africa to build nuclear weapons.
White
House 'lied about Saddam threat'
A former US intelligence official who served under the Bush administration in the build-up to the Iraq war accused the White House yesterday of lying about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein.
Iraqgate:
Is Niger the smoking gun?
The White House has dealt a devastating blow to Tony Blair by rejecting as flawed British claims that Saddam Hussein attempted to buy uranium from Africa to restart his nuclear weapons programme.
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