projects.publicintegrity.org - 10/28/2008
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On August 26, 2002, in an address to the national convention of the Veteran of Foreign Wars, Cheney flatly declared: "Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, ...
townhall.com - 10/27/2008
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townhall.com —
When Josh Mandel got a call from the
Marines last year asking him to return voluntarily to
Iraq, he had much more to contemplate than when he first enlisted in 2000. He had just been elected to the Ohio state legislature. Family considerations were ...
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Joel Mowbray : Iraq War vet’s service attacked in ...
wonkroom.thinkprogress.org - 10/28/2008
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wonkroom.thinkprogress.org —
Robert Kagan, a leading member of John McCain’s
war cabinet , recently gave an interview to Der
Spiegel in which he was asked about the Bush administration’s decision to invade Iraq : SPIEGEL: Isn’t it true that Bush, Cheney and ...
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McCain Adviser Dismisses Evidence Of Bush’s Iraq ...
strategypage.com - 10/27/2008
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strategypage.com —
October 27, 2008: The war is over. Most
of the noise these days is from politicians arguing,
not bombs going off. There are still bombs, but now they tend to be assassination attempts, as some political parties play dirty (not unknown in this part of ...
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Iraq: The Letter
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McCain Adviser Dismisses Evidence Of Bush’s Iraq Dishonesty As ‘Conspiracy Theories’
Wonk Room —
... , et al were arguing in good faith about the need to invade Iraq, and stop dismissing the overwhelming evidence of their dishonesty as “conspiracy theories.” ...
Robert Kagan on Bribing Sunni Fighters: It Worked, Didn’t It?
Comments from Left Field —
... , et al were arguing in good faith about the need to invade Iraq, and stop dismissing the overwhelming evidence of their dishonesty as “conspiracy theories.” ...
Rove’s Bush-Burnishing Thwarted By Reality
Wonk Room —
... I don’t think we could ask for a clearer illustration of the Bush administration’s perverse priorities and basic governing incompetence. When making specious arguments in favor of a stupid war, Bush and his cronies couldn’t talk enough about the threat of nuclear and biological weapons. But when it comes to taking real, practical steps toward protecting Americans from WMD proliferation, Bush considers that less important than protecting the prerogatives of the executive branch against congressional trespass. ...
W.’s Massive Delusions
The Republic of T. —
... “That is a do-over that I can’t do,” Bush said.
(Join the club, Dub’. We all kinda wish there had been better intelligence — heck, any intelligence — during your administration.)
Well, except that it’s been pretty well documented that the intelligence wasn’t so much the problem as the cherry-pinking of intelligence. In some cases, the Bush administration just told lie upon lie.
Nine hundred thirty-five to be exact.
President George W. Bush and seven of his ...
W's Massive Delusions
Booman Tribune —
... . Nine hundred thirty-five to be exact. President George W. Bush and seven of his administrations top officials, including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, made at least 935 false statements in the two years following September 11, 2001, about the national security threat posed by Saddam Husseins Iraq. Nearly five years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, an exhaustive examination of the record shows that the statements were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion ...
Rumsfeld’s $49 Billion “Miscalculation”
The Moderate Voice —
... For a sampling of such dishonesty (935 of them), go to The Center for Public Integrity’s “Iraq: The War Card–False Pretenses.” ...
Bush’s Military Legacy
Wonk Room —
... sold with dishonest arguments. George W. Bush has violated this bargain. That is a part of his legacy that he cannot escape, no matter how many flags he stands before. ...
Well Past Time To Retire ‘War On Terror’
Wonk Room —
... Exactly. Call me old fashioned, but I think vast and enduring overseas military commitments should be a “tough sell” to the American people. This isn’t to say that we shouldn’t ever undertake them, just that our leaders should be expected to make the case for them on the merits, in a way that recognizes the seriousness of the undertaking, and not try and sell them with apocalyptic half-truths. ...
NYT: 2007 Iran NIE Still In Effect
Wonk Room —
... It also worth noting one reason that the NYT article suggests U.S. intelligence agencies are being so meticulous about what the Iran data do and do not show: The Iraq debacle, in which the Bush administration and its media allies misrepresented the intelligence about Iraqi WMD, and then turned around and blamed the CIA when Iraq’s reality didn’t match the Bush administration’s apocalyptic fantasy. So, in their attempt to get America into yet another war, conservatives are being stymied by their lies about the last one. That, my friends, is poetic justice we can ...
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- The Center for Public Integrity
projects.publicintegrity.org 12/5/2008 — Search The 380,000-plus-word database presented here allows, for the first time, the Iraq-related public pronouncements of top Bush administration officials to be tracked on a day-by-day basis against their private assessments and the actual “ground ...
McCain, Iraq War and the Threat of ‘Al Qaeda’ - New York Times
nytimes.com 12/15/2008 — As he campaigns with the weight of a deeply unpopular war on his shoulders, Senator John McCain of Arizona frequently uses the shorthand “ Al Qaeda ” to describe the enemy in Iraq in pressing to stay the course in the war there.“Al Qaeda is on the ...
Iraq at the End of the Surge
commentarymagazine.com 12/9/2008 — Last week I wrote that many Americans and Iraqis I spoke to in Baghdad recently expect a surge of violence after American troops withdraw from Iraqi cities as stipulated by the recently signed Status of Forces Agreement. Many readers seemed surprised ...
Iraq
change.gov 11/6/2008 — The Problem Inadequate Security and Political Progress in Iraq: Since the surge began, more than 1,000 American troops have died, and despite the improved security situation, the Iraqi government has not stepped forward to lead the Iraqi people and to ...
Victory In Iraq Day
confederateyankee.mu.nu 11/25/2008 — The Iraq Wars are over, and we have won. Let me say that again. WE HAVE WON THE IRAQ WARS. And yes, I do mean to use the plural, as we have, along with our allies, won three intertwined...
CIA Agents Confirm: Al Queda WAS In Iraq in Before Invasion
floppingaces.net 11/13/2008 — Eclipsed by the election campaignining, this story slipped under the radar. Much has been said about the invasion of Iraq. Often there are claims that there were no weapons of mass destruction and no ties to Al Queda. In fact, most of the WMD claims ...
Victory in Iraq Day–22 November 2008
lifeingaltsgulch.wordpress.com 11/18/2008 — Blogger Zombie has taken upon itself to do what our current President should have done.
Declare Victory.
We have enforced the UN mandate. We have deposed, tried, and executed Saddam Hussein and brought justice to his henchman. We ended Iraq’s ...
SoI: Anbar
mudvillegazette.com 1/12/2009 — Third in a series, previous entry here .
More from Adam Weinstein, on the near-future of the Sons of Iraq program.
Anbar grassroots movement reaches milestone:
Sons of Iraq registration underway
By Adam Weinstein
MNC-I Public Affairs ...
Big foreign policy agenda awaits next president —
Reuters: Politics 10/29/2008
NORFOLK, Virginia (Reuters) - The next U.S. president will face a daunting list of foreign policy challenges, from wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and the global financial crisis to the need to shore up the country's frayed international image.
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