9/15/2005 8:30:00 PM GMT
Numerous lies which have been spread by Bush's admin about Iraq war had been exposed
Today, after more than three years of Bush's stirring declaration of war on Iraq, numerous lies which have been spread by the Administration had been exposed and it’s hard to keep track.
It seems that it’s part of Bush’s foreign policy.
After an astonishing two years of cowardice, the mainstream press has finally started during the past year to draw the world’s attention to the unconscionable level of the administrative deception. But they seem surprised to find that when it comes to Iraq war, the Bush isn't prone to the occasional lie of expediency but, in fact, almost never told the truth.
We decided to document the trail of deceit.
Below is a list of the most outrageous and significant lies uttered by the American President and his top officials over the past three years:
We thought it would be more appropriate to begin with the most recent fabrication
1) “A key piece of evidence linking Iraq to a nuclear weapons program appears to have been fabricated, the United Nations' chief nuclear inspector said [March 6] in a report that called into question U.S. and British claims about Iraq's secret nuclear ambitions.â€Â
“Documents that purportedly showed Iraqi officials shopping for uranium in Africa two years ago were deemed "not authentic" after careful scrutiny by UN and independent experts, Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told the UN Security Council.â€Â
The administration’s response was…
â€ÂWe fell for itâ€Â, said one U.S. official who reviewed the documents, as though the Administration had nothing to do with this "mysterious" fabrication.
The next are other top lies that were circulated by Bush’s admin and the right-wing propaganda machine.
2) The Bush Administration claimed that Iraq is developing an 800-mile-plus range missile. A prior UN resolution stated that it’s illegal for Iraq to build missiles that had a range in excess of 93 miles.
The al-Samoud 2 missile, the Bush’s admin referred to, has been flying by about 15 miles in tests as it’s still loaded down with its guidance system.
3) The Bush administration claimed it had satellite images that showed new research buildings at Iraqi nuclear sites. But when the UN inspectors went there, they found "nothing".
4) The Bush administration asserted that Iraq presidential palaces were places the inspectors would find incriminating evidence. But again, "nothing" was found.
5) Bush’s admin claimed that some Al Qaeda informant said that radioactive material had been smuggled through airports.
The “informant†then failed a polygraph test.
â€ÂThis piece of that puzzle turns out to be fabricated and therefore the reason for a lot of the alarm, particularly in Washington, has been dissipated after they found out that this information was not true,†Vince Cannistraro, former CIA counter-terrorism chief was quoted as saying.
However, the “Orange†alert status; activated at the time those claims were made public, remained. If the reason for the heightened alert status was proven false, then why keep it? This was aimed at paralyzing the populace with fear so as to force them behind the President’s criminal dealings. Besides, how many people could have possibly even heard about the whole “Hoax†thing?
Tom Ridge made no mention of the “Hoax†to anyone so why should Bush.
"We have not received any additional intelligence that would lead us to either raise or lower the threat level at this time."
6) Rupert Murdoch helped the Administration spreading this lie:
"Saddam Hussein's senior bodyguard has fled with details of Iraq's secret arsenal. His revelations have supported U.S. President George W. Bush's claim [that] there is enough evidence from UN inspectors to justify going to war. [The bodyguard] has provided Israeli intelligence with a list of sites that the inspectors have not visited."
All of these have proven to be 100% false.
7) The Bush administration has repeatedly claimed that Saddam have links to Al Qaeda network, centerpiece to its argument for launching the war. The CIA and the FBI disagree:
"…analysts at the Central Intelligence Agency have complained that senior administration officials have exaggerated the significance of some intelligence reports about Iraq, particularly about its possible links to terrorism, in order to strengthen their political argument for war, government officials said."
And…
"At the Federal Bureau of Investigation, some investigators said they were baffled by the Bush administration's insistence on a solid link between Iraq and Osama bin Laden's network.†“We’ve been looking at this hard for more than a year and you know what, we just don't think it's there," a government official said.
This is consistent with what they were saying back in October:
"They are politicizing intelligence, no question about it," said Vincent M. Cannistraro, a former CIA counterterrorism chief. "And they are undertaking a campaign to get George Tenet [the director of central intelligence] fired because they can't get him to say what they want on Iraq."
Also in January 30, Blix revealed that:
“there had seen no persuasive indications of Iraqi ties to al Qaeda, which Mr. Bush also mentioned in his speech.â€Â
But Condoleezza Rice, Bush's national security adviser at that time, claimed that Al Qaeda operatives have had a direct link to the Saddam’s government:
"There clearly are contacts between Al Qaeda and Iraq that can be documented,"
Central to Bush’s claim of Al Qaeda - Saddam connection is the assertion that Czech authorities had evidence of a meeting between Mohammed Atta, one of the alleged hijackers of September 11 attacks, and an Iraqi agent in Prague in April 2001.And although Czech President Vaclav Havel and Czech intelligence both refuted this report., the Bush admin still uses the Prague report as evidence of an Iraq - Al Qaeda connection.
9) Blix touted a discrepancy in reported Chemical weapons as potential proof that Iraq has 1000 tons of chemical weapons stashed away. He reported that a document given to UN inspectors by the Iraqis:
“...gives an account of the expenditure of bombs, including chemical bombs by Iraq in the Iraq-Iran War... The document indicates that 13,000 chemical bombs were dropped by the Iraqi air force between 1983 and 1998; while Iraq has declared that 19,500 bombs were consumed during this period. Thus, there is a discrepancy of 6500 bombs. The amount of chemical agent in these bombs would be in the order of about 1000 tons.â€Â
He suggested that about 1000 tons of chemical agent hidden from the U.S., waiting to be used.
But Scott Ritter, former top UN weapons inspector, stated that the viable existence of these agents is impossible:
“Through its inspection activities, UNSCOM [the precursor to the current weapons inspection body UNIMOVIC] obtained reasonable information concerning Iraq's chemical weapons (CW) activities from 1981 to 1987, with the exception of data on the use of CW against Iran. Iraq consistently refused to provide details to UNSCOM regarding such use, probably because of the political fallout that such an admission would cause.â€Â
And…
“While this refusal prevented a full accounting of Iraqi CW, Iraq could not still have viable CW from that period because the chemical agent would have long since deteriorated... As an internal UNSCOM working paper noted, an Iraqi declaration of CW use during the war with Iran was not required for any meaningful verification: `Taking into consideration the conditions and the quality of CW-agents and munitions produced by Iraq at that time, there is no possibility of weapons remaining from the mid-1980s'.â€Â
And…
“What was overlooked in 1998 [when UNSCOM inspectors were withdrawn from Iraq] was the extent to which UNSCOM had actually eliminated Iraq's CW capability. The Muthanna State Establishment and most of Iraq's associated production equipment had been destroyed, either through aerial bombardment during Operation Desert Storm [the U.S. military's operational designation for the 1991 Gulf War] or under the supervision of UNSCOM inspectors. Iraq's stockpiles of CW agent had either been destroyed in the same manner or could be assumed to have deteriorated.â€Â
10) In his speech to the UN Security Council on Sept. 12, Bush claimed that Iraq had made "several attempts to buy-high-strength aluminum tubes used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons."
By early January, the IAEA inspection concluded that:
"The 81mm tubes sought by Iraq were 'not directly suitable' for centrifuges, but appeared intended for use as conventional artillery rockets. The Bush administration, meanwhile, stuck to its original position while acknowledging disagreement among U.S. officials who had reviewed the evidence."
11) Washington and UK issued reports accusing Iraq of renewing its quest for nuclear weapons. In Britain's assessment, Iraq reportedly had "sought significant amounts of uranium from Africa, despite having no active civil nuclear program that could require it."
The IAEA asserted it had found no evidence of banned weapons or nuclear material in an extensive sweep of Iraq using advanced radiation detectors.
12) In a January 30 interview, Blix:
“...took issue with what he said were U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell's claims that the inspectors had found that Iraqi officials were hiding and moving illicit materials within and outside of Iraq to prevent their discovery. He said that the inspectors had reported no such incidents."
13) In the same interview, Blix said:
" …he had not seen convincing evidence that Iraq was sending weapons scientists to Syria, Jordan or any other country to prevent them from being interviewed. Nor had he any reason to believe, as President Bush charged, that Iraqi agents were posing as scientists..."
14) Bush cited a satellite photograph and a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency as evidence of Iraq's nuclear rearmament. But a senior administration official acknowledged that the UN nuclear watchdog report drew no such conclusion, and a spokesman for the IAEA said "the photograph had been misinterpreted".
15) The American President has repetitively lied about Iraq's nuclear capabilities as well as its missile-delivery capabilities, trying to install fear inside Americans by claiming that Iraq possesses a fleet of unmanned aircraft that could be used 'for missions targeting the U.S'.
16) "Bush's case against Saddam Hussein, outlined in a televised address to the nation, relied on a slanted and sometimes entirely false reading of the available U.S. intelligence, government officials and analysts claims. Officials in the CIA, FBI and energy department were put under intense pressure to produce reports that back the administration's line…
"Basically, cooked information is working its way into high-level pronouncements and there's a lot of unhappiness about it in intelligence, especially among analysts at the CIA," said Vincent Cannistraro, the CIA's former head of counter-intelligence."
17) Contrary to Donald Rumsfeld’s assertion that Iraq kicked out UN weapons inspectors in 1998, Charles Duelfer, who was deputy chairman of the UN inspection agency at the time asserted, "We made the decision to evacuate."
18) Another lie was the alleged Iraqi-ordered assassination attempt on George H. W. Bush: "A senior White House official recently told me that one of the seemingly most persuasive elements of the report had been overstated and was essentially incorrect," said Seymour Hersh in a 1993 article. "And none of the Clinton Administration officials have claimed that there was any empirical evidence - a 'smoking gun' -directly linking Saddam or any of his senior advisers to the alleged assassination attempt. The case against Iraq was, and remains, circumstantial."
19) And let's not forget another lie: "the International Atomic Energy Agency says that a report cited by Bush as evidence that Iraq in 1998 was 'six months away' from developing a nuclear weapon never existed. 'There's never been a report like that issued from this agency,' said Mark Gwozdecky, the IAEA's chief spokesman."
20) And finally- the British Dossier, a highly anticipated document, touted as the piece of the puzzle that would unconditionally convince the world that Saddam is the greatest threat to humanity since...well... since George W. Bush.
It’s been revealed that the UK dossier on Iraq is a sham:
"Downing Street was last night plunged into acute international embarrassment after it emerged that large parts of the British government's latest dossier on Iraq - allegedly based on "intelligence material", were taken from published academic articles, some of them several years old, put together by post-graduate students in California."
So did "Downing Street" apologize for deceiving the world? No
Also let’s not forget what the UN inspectors said about the information they regularly receive from the Bush Administration:
“UN sources have told CBS News that American tips have lead to one dead end after another…. So frustrated have the inspectors become that one source has referred to the U.S. intelligence they've been getting as "garbage after garbage after garbage.
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