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By Charles Lewis
False Pretenses.... BUSH: STATE OF THE UNION....
Mon Jan 28, 2008 19:34
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1/28/08 BUSH: STATE OF THE UNION....
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False Pretenses
Following 9/11, President Bush and seven top officials of his
administration waged a carefully orchestrated campaign of
misinformation about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
By Charles Lewis and Mark Reading-Smith
President George W. Bush and seven of his administration's 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 Hussein's 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 and, in the process, led the nation to war
under decidedly false pretenses.
On at least 532 separate occasions (in speeches, briefings,
interviews, testimony, and the like), Bush and these three key
officials, along with Secretary of State Colin Powell, Deputy
Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, and White House press secretaries
Ari Fleischer and Scott McClellan, stated unequivocally that Iraq
had weapons of mass destruction (or was trying to produce or obtain
them), links to Al Qaeda, or both. This concerted effort was the
underpinning of the Bush administration's case for war.
It is now beyond dispute that Iraq did not possess any weapons of
mass destruction or have meaningful ties to Al Qaeda. This was the
conclusion of numerous bipartisan government investigations,
including those by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (2004
and 2006), the 9/11 Commission, and the multinational Iraq Survey
Group, whose "Duelfer Report" established that Saddam Hussein had
terminated Iraq's nuclear program in 1991 and made little effort to
restart it.
In short, the Bush administration led the nation to war on the basis
of erroneous information that it methodically propagated and that
culminated in military action against Iraq on March 19, 2003. Not
surprisingly, the officials with the most opportunities to make
speeches, grant media interviews, and otherwise frame the public
debate also made the most false statements, according to this first-
ever analysis of the entire body of prewar rhetoric.
President Bush, for example, made 232 false statements about weapons
of mass destruction in Iraq and another 28 false statements about
Iraq's links to Al Qaeda. Secretary of State Powell had the second-
highest total in the two-year period, with 244 false statements
about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and 10 about Iraq's links
to Al Qaeda. Rumsfeld and Fleischer each made 109 false statements,
followed by Wolfowitz (with 85), Rice (with 56), Cheney (with 48),
and McClellan (with 14).
The massive database at the heart of this project juxtaposes what
President Bush and these seven top officials were saying for public
consumption against what was known, or should have been known, on a
day-to-day basis. This fully searchable database includes the public
statements, drawn from both primary sources (such as official
transcripts) and secondary sources (chiefly major news
organizations) over the two years beginning on September 11, 2001.
It also interlaces relevant information from more than 25 government
reports, books, articles, speeches, and interviews.
www.publicintegrity.org/WarCard/Default.aspx?src=home&context=overview&id=945
