It took a lot of lies to sell this war.
One lie in a civil deposition about consensual sex caused the Republicans to impeach Bill Clinton.
Nine-hundred and thirty-five Bush administration lies leading the nation to a terrible war shattering the lives of millions have not even merited a Congressional investigation.
I was disgusted some weeks back when talking head Michel Martin said on the Bill Maher show: "But how do you – why – why is it so invested in the idea that (the Iraq War was based on) a lie, as opposed to a mistake? I guess what I’m just curious about is why."
In truth, there have been ample sources factually contradicting the massive PR campaign that the administration launched to enable its obscenity in Iraq, while the Arab League, Europe, and virtually the rest of the world explicitly denied an Iraqi threat, or watched in silence as the Bush administration began its assualt against humanity.
Martin's statement and those like it are ludicrous.
Simply stated, Bush, Cheney, Rice and the whole sorry bunch of them are liars who set off a catastrophe that Iraqi and American families will be paying for the rest of their lives.
In January the Center for Public Integrity released The War Card, Orchestrated Deception on the Path to War, chronicling 935 separate lies by eight top administration officials, including President Bush.
Give the Center for Public Integrity's site (above) a look; the group (with Charles Lewis and Mark Reading-Smith) deserve high praise for doing the job that the U.S. Congress has failed to do.
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