Bush: I Was Right To Use Non-Existent Link Between Saddam-9/11 To Push For War
Bush: I Was Right To Use Non-Existent Link Between Saddam-9/11 To Push For War
Today, President Bush defended his foreign policy over the past eight years in an address to the Saban Center for Middle East Policy in Washington, DC. At one point, he acknowledged that there was no link between Saddam Hussein and the 9/11 attacks but justified using such a connection to push for the Iraq war:
It is true, as I have said many times, that Saddam Hussein was not connected to the 9/11 attacks. But the decision to remove Saddam from power cannot be viewed in isolation from 9/11. In a world where terrorists armed with box cutters had just killed nearly 3,000 people, America had to decide whether we could tolerate a sworn enemy that acted belligerently, that supported terror, and that intelligence agencies around the world believed had weapons of mass destruction. It was clear to me, to members of both political parties, and to many leaders around the world that after 9/11, this was a risk we could not afford to take.
Bush has repeatedly stated that Saddam was not connected to 9/11. However, those statements came only after the war. Prior to the war, Bush and other administration officials repeatedly strove to create the impression that the Iraqi dictator was directly involved in the attacks:
“We know that Iraq and the Al Qaida terrorist network share a common enemy: the United States of America. We know that Iraq and Al Qaida have had high-level contacts that go back a decade.” [Bush, 10/14/02]
“The use of armed forces against Iraq is consistent with the United States and other countries continuing to take the necessary actions against international terrorists and terrorist organizations, including those nations, organizations or person who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.” [Bush’s Letter to Congress, 3/21/03]
“If we’re successful in Iraq … we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11.” [Cheney on NBC's Meet the Press, 9/14/03]
The effect was a public who supported Bush’s Iraq invasion based on this false premise, along with the equally false claim that Iraq had WMD. A Sept. 2003 poll found that seven in 10 Americans believed Saddam was personally involved in the 9/11 attacks. Nevertheless, Bush has tried to rewrite history and claim that he never made that connection in the first place, saying in May 2006, “First, just if I might correct a misperception, I don’t think we ever said — at least I know I didn’t say — that there was a direct connection between September the 11th and Saddam Hussein.”
Bush still embraces his pre-war lies, as he admitted in his Saban address today, because without them, the public wouldn’t have supported his case for war.
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we obviously cannot handle the truth... thanks for the update, georgie.
December 5th, 2008 at 12:05 pmBush: I Was Right To Use Non-Existent Link Between Saddam-9/11 To Push For War»
- - Bush is just reiterating The Bush Doctrine. I liked it better when Sarah Palin "explained" it.
December 5th, 2008 at 12:06 pmI honestly hope that, come January 21st, Bush is ignored by the news media and relegated to FuxNews for any and all publicity.
I'm so forking sick of this dumb phuck, and his and his minions attempts to rewrite history won't work if no one lets them near a microphone.
PEACE
December 5th, 2008 at 12:10 pmIt wasn't bad judgement on shrubs part, it was flat out lies.
December 5th, 2008 at 12:12 pmSaddam was captured 5 years ago. Removing him from power was the mission?
Well at least nobody wants to do us harm any more. /sarc
December 5th, 2008 at 12:13 pmspencers mom Says:
I honestly hope that, come January 21st, Bush is ignored by the news media and relegated to FuxNews for any and all publicity.
December 5th, 2008 at 12:10 pm
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I dunno - I'd kinda like to see the media cover his trial for murder.
December 5th, 2008 at 12:13 pmOver a million innocents killed dead. This piece of scum makes me puke.
December 5th, 2008 at 12:14 pmamerica deserves to rot as it of course currently doing. Funnily enough it just elected another ignorant person who will make matters worse. Obama's foreign policy/national security "team" is no different than the failed Bush in terms of policy.
December 5th, 2008 at 12:15 pmI wonder if someone from the Iraqi people could try Bush for murder now that they're a fully functioning democracy and all ...
Would be sort of ironic, wouldn't it?
December 5th, 2008 at 12:16 pmIt was all about proving up his dad. Thanks, Bushie, heck of a job.
No 8. Go away little troll, the rushpublican party needs your help.
December 5th, 2008 at 12:16 pmAccording to the Nuremberg Tribunal, planning, conspiracy to wage, and starting a war of aggression IS THE SUPREME WAR CRIME, punishment is death by hanging.
Bush has confessed to starting and waging a war of aggression. He deserves to be hung along with all the other war criminals of this administration.
If it is a war crime for Germans and Japanese to do this, it is no less the supreme war crime if done by Americans.
December 5th, 2008 at 12:16 pmP.S. No. 8: Learn to use a comma!
December 5th, 2008 at 12:17 pmWhich policy or policies has Obama and his "team" enacted and which have failed?
December 5th, 2008 at 12:20 pmBush is a lying A$$, and his lies have resulted in the deaths of thousands of innocent civilians and our brave young men and women serving in the armed forces. Culpable negligence resulting in death is MANSLAUGHTER and he has admitted he is guilty as he*l, and the rest of his life, no matter what he does, will NEVER bring him the glory he so obviously wishes to attain. The Hague is waiting for him, and he will pay for the war crimes he personally authorized some day.
We will NEVER allow him to rewrite history!!
December 5th, 2008 at 12:20 pm#12 you proved my point
December 5th, 2008 at 12:20 pmI was the only person at my work out of 24 that thought it was all a lie and that Bush was going to war for other reasons...
...everyone but the only republican in the shop has acknowledged that they were deceived and that I was right...
...the only republican still supports Bush and thinks Palin would make a great president...so much for brains in that department.
December 5th, 2008 at 12:20 pmBush is a sorry excuse for an American president much less a world leader. Interesting to see how grateful the world is about his pending departure. No matter how many times this goof lies about his actions, the world knows otherwise and he'll always be regarded as the model of how democracy was hi-jacked by greedy men.
December 5th, 2008 at 12:22 pmJBaddo Says:
#12 you proved my point
Yeah, what are you?
The Grammer Police!
hmmm... why is the only reply he posted about something so trivial??
December 5th, 2008 at 12:25 pmOnce a delusional sob, always a delusional sob. Nuff said.
December 5th, 2008 at 12:25 pmJBaddo Says:
"america deserves to rot"
You seem to be helping the process along quite wonderfully. I actually believe that America deserves to turn this around and move in a new direction and until Obama's team has time to prove itself, it only seems right to remain cautiously optimistic as opposed to hopelessly stuck in a hole of negativity. That's too easy and is a symptom of mental laziness. The fight's not over, but if you're not helping now would be your cue to just get the phuck out of the way... or maybe you'd like to provide more actual evidence to back up your assertions. While some of his choices have been cause for concern, none are so bad as to deserve such loss of faith in what this country can be.
December 5th, 2008 at 12:30 pmraynman, because JBaddo is a repug trollie and it's hard work for their little brains to process any thing other than the trivial stuff without the Faux News filters
December 5th, 2008 at 12:30 pmAre we really surprised by the comment Bush made? Sociopaths never admit failure. By the way is it not a crime in using knowingly false information to lead a country into war? And didn't Bush just admit to doing this very thing? The Hague... are you listening?
December 5th, 2008 at 12:31 pmhelenahandbasket Says:
... the rushpublican party
perfect... i'll have to adopt that one.
December 5th, 2008 at 12:34 pmWow, 8 years of Bush, and -46 days of Obama, and its all Obama's fault already....
I love that new Math
December 5th, 2008 at 12:38 pmOT: Is anyone else pissed off that with all of the billions of dollars being stolen to bail out the banksters, Wall Street, etc, nothing is being proposed about the insanely high interest rates banks and credit card companies charge their customers, enslaving them in debt?
Usury (charging interest)is condemned in the bible so why do all of our christian/religious leaders and organizations remain silent about this? They will tenaciously and publically oppose abortion, gay rights, gay marriage while publically fighting for the right to display the ten commandments in public buildings and yet they do not say a word about usury.
Why isn't our politicians forcing bailed out banks and the credit card companies to lower their insanely high interest rates during this economical downward spiral to give millions of Americans some relief? Why? Because our politicians, democratic or republican are beholden to banks, corporations, the defense industry and the federal reserve bank.
December 5th, 2008 at 12:39 pmGood point Uncle. Though I do not thump the Bible to make a viewpoint, the Repugs do, though I do believe that they are now so soulless that shaming them religiously will no longer work.
December 5th, 2008 at 12:41 pmI suggest the Nobel committee call an emergency session and grant Shrubby some special prize - like Thanks for Participating - You're a Winner!.
Then maybe he could just shuffle back to Texas and stop this world-wide tour of destruction.
Or maybe Laura could slip something into his coffee - knock him out for the next 50 days?
December 5th, 2008 at 12:45 pmSO IT'S "OK" TO USE A TRUMPED UP CHARGE TO CONVICT SOMEONE OF A CRIME SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU DON'T LIKE THEM, MAY HAVE AN INCREDIBLY LOOSE ASSOCIATION OR BECAUSE THEY MAY HAVE COMMITTED OTHER CRIMES.
GOTCHA GEORGIE.....WE'LL BE USING YOUR NEW PROSECUTORIAL TACTIC IN THE HAGUE AGAINST YOU.
THANKS AGAIN FOR PROVIDING THE TOOLS.
December 5th, 2008 at 12:46 pmraynman Says:
Wow, 8 years of Bush, and -46 days of Obama, and its all Obama’s fault already….
I love that new Math
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Yep! We knew this was going to happen. The republikkkans have selective memory. They seem to forget that they had a majority in the house and senate for 6 years and yet blame the democrats who have held a slim majority since January 2007. Now they conveniently forget that we've had the worst president in our countries history these past 8 years and blame everything on Obama. At least he puts some thought into what he wants to do. While Bush only did things that would increase the profits for his cronies.
This is a propaganda technique called "mirroring". And it worked! Putting 9/11 and Iraq in the same sentence made half the country think that one had something to do with the other. It's the only explanation for so many people believing something that was 100% fiction.
December 5th, 2008 at 12:50 pmReagan really didn't have Alzheimers, he just had that smooth-brained selective memory that all Repugs are genetically prone to.
December 5th, 2008 at 12:51 pmjbaddo: "america deserves to rot as it of course currently doing. Funnily enough it just elected another ignorant person who will make matters worse."
Hey dumbass: if you're going to accuse the president-elect of being "ignorant," at least try not to use words like "funnily." And, usually people who are NOT ignorant begin sentences with a capital letter. You see, when you complain that Obama's cabinet is just like Bush's, you need to use decent grammar or people will suspect you don't know what you're talking about and that you are simply pulling things out of your behind.
December 5th, 2008 at 12:53 pmthe Lone Voice of Reason Says:
Good point Uncle. Though I do not thump the Bible to make a viewpoint, the Repugs do, though I do believe that they are now so soulless that shaming them religiously will no longer work.
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I say this because we are suppose to be a christian nation yet all of these so called christian leaders on the radical right and many of their faithful followers seem to pick and choose issues they take on and usually it's just about hate and money.
One of my sisters is a republican and a christian like myself and yet she rails against helping those less fortunate, she has become too blind to see that she isn't following the example that Jesus taught. Many of these so called christians fail to see that they along with many of the religious leaders are serving two Gods, the other God they seem to serve the most is Mammon.
December 5th, 2008 at 12:54 pmYeah, what are you?
The Grammer Police!
- - Grammer, eh? Who polices the police? Grammar.
December 5th, 2008 at 12:56 pmjbaddo: “america deserves to rot as it of course currently doing. Funnily enough it just elected another ignorant person who will make matters worse.”
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I suppose jbaddo was hoping McCain and the bimbo from Wasilla had won? Or maybe he is a Ron Pauliac. Obama under normal circumstances would probably go down in history as one of our greatest presidents. Of course he has inherited a colossal clusterphuck thanks to the Bushites. His plate is no doubt full and probably faces the toughest situation any president has had to face. Two wars, a collapsing economy, terrorism, lost jobs, healthcare issues, etc, I have faith that he will do what is best for the country and for we the people.
But if he starts going off the deep end I'll bet progressives will speak out unlike the braindead republikkkans who voted twice for Bush. That is the big difference between democrats and republikkkans. If our party is screwing up we hold them accountable.
December 5th, 2008 at 1:01 pmBadmoodman Says:
- - Grammer, eh? Who polices the police? Grammar.
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Mebbe they were referring to Kelsey Grammer... well-known right wing whiner and child predator.
December 5th, 2008 at 1:02 pmJBaddo Says:
Obama’s foreign policy/national security “team” is no different than the failed Bush in terms of policy.
December 5th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
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Bullshit.
Look, I'm not a fan of every pick Obama's made - James Jones, Bob Gates, and Hillary Clinton are not exactly peacenicks, and I'm very skeptical about the prospects for Middle East peace if Richard Holbrooke and Dennis Ross get involved. But I'm coming to see the new team as pragmatic choices for an administration that's inheriting three wars and a shitload of global instability.
They're also not neocon ideologue war hawks in the vein of John Bolton and Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz, either. I don't see Obama's team fixing the facts around the intelligence in order to lie us into a pointless war. There's simply no comparison between the incoming Obama team and the folks who conspired to put us in Iraq.
December 5th, 2008 at 1:04 pmincluding those nations, organizations or person who planned, authorized, committed, or aided the terrorist attacks that occurred on September 11, 2001.
Okay george think back now, we know you can remember, just who were these people exactly.
December 5th, 2008 at 1:06 pmWhat people need to remember is that executive organizations tend to take on the personality of their leaders. I would much rather see someone other than Gates as Dec Def, but there are two important things to keep in mind:
1. Gates now will be working for Obama, not Bush/Cheney.
2. Gates is only staying on for the continuity of the Defense Department at a time when most intelligence agencies think there will be another catastrophic terrorist attack.
3. There is only a hair's worth of difference in the foreign policy philosophy of Obama and Hillary Clinton. Everyone should have figured that out in the primaries.
Remember that the only reason a person like Colin Powell has had his reputation tarnished was related to his duty to carry out the orders of his President. Yes, he could have refused. But, the point is that if Colin Powell were working for an honest president, his reputation would still be in tact.
December 5th, 2008 at 1:12 pmUncle Fester Lurks Says:
One of my sisters is a republican and a christian like myself and yet she rails against helping those less fortunate, she has become too blind to see that she isn’t following the example that Jesus taught. Many of these so called christians fail to see that they along with many of the religious leaders are serving two Gods, the other God they seem to serve the most is Mammon.
I am not a Christian, but I think they would say it is the individuals role to help the less fortunate so as to win brownine points with St. Pete and get to Spiritual Disneyland. If the government compels you to help the less fortunate, you have no choice in it and therefore you earn no brownie points. That and mumbling about sin, free will, rendering to Caesar...I think that'd be their take.
December 5th, 2008 at 1:22 pmhussein toasterhead Says:
Look, I’m not a fan of every pick Obama’s made - James Jones, Bob Gates, and Hillary Clinton are not exactly peacenicks, and I’m very skeptical about the prospects for Middle East peace if Richard Holbrooke and Dennis Ross get involved. But I’m coming to see the new team as pragmatic choices for an administration that’s inheriting three wars and a shitload of global instability.
They’re also not neocon ideologue war hawks in the vein of John Bolton and Dick Cheney and Paul Wolfowitz, either. I don’t see Obama’s team fixing the facts around the intelligence in order to lie us into a pointless war. There’s simply no comparison between the incoming Obama team and the folks who conspired to put us in Iraq.
I agree with all of this, Toasterhead. And, as a moderate conservative, the fact that his foreign policy team is centrist earns Obama huge concilliation points with me. My conservatism is based on hard nosed foreign policy assessments, so his choices really win my type over. We'll see what the actual policies are, but the word "pragmatic" is well chosen.
Likewise, going to the right on Foreign policy is likely to win him greater running room to go left on Domestic policy. Fair is fair; he won the election, and thus far is being very magnanimous to those he defeated. In return, the R's owe it to him to give him a chance, even if they disagree with him. THAT is the type of change he promised to bring to Washington - here's to his success!
December 5th, 2008 at 1:26 pm49erDem Says:
Remember that the only reason a person like Colin Powell has had his reputation tarnished was related to his duty to carry out the orders of his President. Yes, he could have refused. But, the point is that if Colin Powell were working for an honest president, his reputation would still be in tact.
December 5th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
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It's a good point, but it brings us to another questions - do we want our Cabinet Secretaries to be good soldiers, or men and women of principle. Had Powell stood up to Cheney instead of lying to the UNGA, we'd be applauding him instead of vilifying him.
It's good that Obama is asserting that he's the decider and that the ultimate policy decisions will be his, but I don't want him surrounding himself with yes-men either. The last eight years have shown us the failure of that type of environment. I want the people he picks to engage him on policy issues - not publically, but in briefings and cabinet meetings. That's why I'm hoping that he'll start adding people to the team who are left of him as well, so the compromises don't all fall to the center-right.
December 5th, 2008 at 1:33 pmKeep running your foolish mouth Shrubby. The world (including the Hague) is listening and yes, they is learning!
December 5th, 2008 at 1:34 pmUncle Fester Lurks Says:
Yep! We knew this was going to happen. The republikkkans have selective memory. They seem to forget that they had a majority in the house and senate for 6 years and yet blame the democrats who have held a slim majority since January 2007. Now they conveniently forget that we’ve had the worst president in our countries history these past 8 years and blame everything on Obama. At least he puts some thought into what he wants to do. While Bush only did things that would increase the profits for his cronies.
Actually, the Republicans had the majority in both the House and the Senate since 1994, except for one brief year at the beginning of Bush's first term when the Dems had a very tiny majority margin in the House. That would be twelve years, and 6 of those with a Republican President to boot.
December 5th, 2008 at 1:59 pmAs if we needed further proof of their crimes. The ENTIRE Bush administration should be taken out and executed at once. They are WAR CRIMINALS! They are no less evil than Hitler and gang.
December 5th, 2008 at 2:29 pmGWB via Cheney fired people in the CIA or made them quit if they had a view about Iraq that was different from what they wanted to report to the American public in January, 2003. People like Ray McGovern, who worked tirelessly and loyally for 27 years before he was forced to quit.
December 5th, 2008 at 2:30 pmIn other words, there is no doubt the intelligence was cooked. Therefore, how in the world can Bush now say he wished he was told that were no WMD's?
The next 46 days can not end fast enough to get this lying sack of sh*t and hsi bunch of thieves the F out of DC.
The simple fact of history that Chimpy and his running-dog-co-neocon-co-conspirators will never defeat: REAL intelligenge which moved against the administrations accusations was suppressed while bogus, third-hand, unreliable "rumour" was stovepiped into the upper echelons. It's done, and chimpy is by far the WORST PRESIDENT. EVER. And A MURDERING BASTARD.
December 5th, 2008 at 2:56 pm49erDem Says:
Remember that the only reason a person like Colin Powell has had his reputation tarnished was related to his duty to carry out the orders of his President. Yes, he could have refused. But, the point is that if Colin Powell were working for an honest president, his reputation would still be in tact.
His reputation has been trash, since it was revealed he was responsible for the cover-up of My Lai. And then, he was responsible for emptying national guard armories of Tow weapons, ans spares, to send to Iran.
No amount of turd-polishing will ever remove these flaws.
December 5th, 2008 at 3:01 pmAm I the only one who is sick and tired already of hearing about what this murderer said ? Arg! Enough! I understand the corporate media's fascination with their patron saint, but most americans are sick of him! Unless he's in jailhouse uniform, just ignore him ! He's irrelevant.
December 5th, 2008 at 3:02 pmIn other words, he 'had' to LIE!!!! He LIED to the American people! He LIED the American people into an immoral and illegal war! It was not a lie about a blow job, it was a LIE on propaganda style that is responsiblw for the deaths on millions of inocent people, americans included!!!! This animals has to be held accountable! War Crimes have to be held accountable! That is... if the USA will ever get serious about its international image and reputation, because as it is, even with Obama's election win, nobody takes the USA seriously and nobody trusts the USA.
December 5th, 2008 at 3:20 pmThat is one of the reasons Obama's picking of Gates for the sec. of defense, does little to confort the international community. People know that the War Criminal R. Gates was involved in the Iran-Contra scandal.
and one more thing: He admits to LIE on TV. It is on record! One more evidence, amongst many, to convict this spoilled brat for War Crimes!
December 5th, 2008 at 3:23 pmPlus, 9/11 was an inside job!
December 5th, 2008 at 3:24 pm.
I WANT TO HEAR THE DEBATE IN THE SENATE CONCERNING THE REDEEMING VALUES TO BEING LIED TO...
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December 5th, 2008 at 3:25 pm.
The aggressive attack upon Iraq by American forces has been a second 9/11 upon America...
I'm Still Tortured by What I Saw in Iraq
... Heck of a Job, Bushie.
Now, America is NOT safer, but instead, LESS SAFE!
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December 5th, 2008 at 3:33 pmOops,
LINKY http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/28/AR2008112802242.html
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December 5th, 2008 at 3:34 pmThis idiot deserves being dipped in a cauldron full of sizzling hot cooking oil. Fry him!
December 5th, 2008 at 4:22 pmbush and cheney. two idiots. ive seen better heads on beer.
December 5th, 2008 at 4:38 pmIn chimp talk, it was also right for Bush to cover-up the fact that the World Trade Center was demolished by expertly placed explosives as well.
December 5th, 2008 at 5:29 pmA lying, shallow man, incompetent, immoral and dangerous.
December 5th, 2008 at 7:32 pmDubya, the reason your daddy left Saddam in place in 1991 when it would have been so easy to remove him, was that he was a buffer against the fundamentalist Islamists. He was doing a good job of suppressing them in Iraq. Brent Scowcroft expressed this very clearly in 2002.
How about a few days ago in the ABC interview with Gibson? Dubya said he had to invade Iraq because they refused to let the inspectors in!! How can the mainstream media allow him to get away with this time after time?
The vote in the Security Council (the only legal way to authorize an invasion) was going to be four for the US's plan and eleven against. We know this because we bugged their phones. Then we withdrew the proposal and invaded in violation of every law there is. Now he says the entire world agreed with him. The cognitive dissonance of this guy is truly amazing.
December 5th, 2008 at 8:16 pmBush spoke at the Saban center, as in Haim Saban the Zionist pro-war Likudnik media mogul who was the largest contributor to the Democratic Leadership Council and who helped destroy Howard Dean after asking Dean what he was going to do for Israel if elected President. Dean said, "You know my wife is Jewish." Saban said, "That's your problem. What are you going to do for Israel?"
December 5th, 2008 at 11:27 pmBush did the bidding of his Zionist handlers.
December 5th, 2008 at 11:33 pmyou leftist so easy to forget history
here is some for you.
"[W]e urge you, after consulting with Congress, and consistent with the
U.S. Constitution and laws, to take necessary actions (including, if
appropriate, air and missile strikes on suspect Iraqi sites) to respond
effectively to the threat posed by Iraq's refusal to end its weapons of
mass destruction programs."
- Letter to President Clinton, signed by Sens. Carl Levin, Tom Daschle,
John Kerry, and others Oct. 9, 1998
"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass
destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and
he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."
- Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998
"Hussein has... chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass
destruction and palaces for his cronies."
- Madeline Albright, Clinton Secretary of State, Nov. 10, 1999
Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to
deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam
is in power."
- Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002
"We have known for many years that Saddam Hussein is seeking and
developing weapons of mass destruction."
- Sen. Ted Kennedy (D, MA), Sept. 27, 2002
"There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working
aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear
weapons within the next five years... We also should remember we have
always underestimated the progress Saddam has made in development of
weapons of mass destruction."
- Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D, WV), Oct 10, 2002
"He has systematically violated, over the course of the past 11 years,
every significant UN resolution that has demanded that he disarm and
destroy his chemical and biological weapons, and any nuclear capacity.
This he has refused to do"
- Rep. Henry Waxman (D, CA), Oct. 10, 2002
"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show
that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological
weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program.
He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including
al Qaeda members .. It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam
Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and
chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons."
- Sen. Hillary Clinton (D, NY), Oct 10, 2002
"We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that
Saddam Hussein has, and has had for a number of years, a developing
capacity for the production and storage of weapons of mass destruction."
- Sen. Bob Graham (D, FL), Dec. 8, 2002
"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal,
December 6th, 2008 at 12:21 ammurderous dictator, leading an oppressive regime... He presents a
particularly grievous threat because he is so consistently prone to
miscalculation... And now he is miscalculating America's response to his
continued deceit and his consistent grasp for weapons of mass
destruction... So the threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass
destruction is real..."
- Sen. John Kerry, 2001
Bush lies about he very reason he attacked Iraq! See video Critical Facts Reporters Won't Report, Serious Issues which put our Lives at Risk
December 6th, 2008 at 11:53 pmBush didn't say he lied to do anything; only the TITLE says this garbage.
Bush said that there were more reasons than 9/11 to invade Iraq and that people seem to have over-looked that fact.
Clearly here...so have all of you.
December 10th, 2008 at 12:24 amJust proves that what Vincent Bugliosi stated in his book"The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder" is spot on. Only problem now is waiting until he is out of office on Jan. 20th before he can charged and arrested. Read the book yourself and you'll see why!
December 10th, 2008 at 12:40 pm