How many times did White House officials make false claims in the build-up to invading Iraq?

At least 935:

Bush led with 259 false statements, 231 about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and 28 about Iraq’s links to al-Qaida, the study found. That was second only to Powell’s 244 false statements about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and 10 about Iraq and al-Qaida.

Let’s take a second and really grasp that number. They didn’t do it once. They didn’t do it twice. Bush and his people said false things that started a war at least

935
times.

So now, after almost half a trillion dollars down the hole

and somewhere between at least 80,000 and possibly up to 1,220,580 violent deaths later…

… with no end remotely in sight, and still Bush gunning for a new war, despite his own administration’s comprehensive National Intelligence Estimate

… I find I must confess that after several minutes of thinking, I have no bloody clue how to end this post on an optimistic, inspiring, or remotely useful note. But there it is.

posted by Bob Harris at 11:56 PM | link

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