President Bush and seven of his top officials made at least 935
false statements in the two years following 9/11 about the national security
threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
That's the finding of an exhaustive investigation by the non-partisan Center for Public Integrity
which showed an orchestrated campaign of misinformation marked the march to
war.
The organization even ranks the Bush Team on how often they lied. The winner?
President Bush himself!
"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)."
"Simply stated, there can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction." --- Dick Cheney; August 26, 2002