I don't think any of you conservatives are going to smear the Center for Public Integrity, correct?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080123/...ormation_study

A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.

The study concluded 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."

The study was posted Tuesday on the Web site of the Center for Public Integrity, which worked with the Fund for Independence in Journalism.

White House spokesman Scott Stanzel did not comment on the merits of the study Tuesday night but reiterated the administration's position that the world community viewed Iraq's leader, Saddam Hussein, as a threat.

"The actions taken in 2003 were based on the collective judgment of intelligence agencies around the world," Stanzel said.

The study counted 935 false statements in the two-year period. It found that in speeches, briefings, interviews and other venues, Bush and administration officials stated unequivocally on at least 532 occasions that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or was trying to produce or obtain them or had links to al-Qaida or both.

"It is now beyond dispute that Iraq did not possess any weapons of mass destruction or have meaningful ties to al-Qaida," according to Charles Lewis and Mark Reading-Smith of the Fund for Independence in Journalism staff members, writing an overview of the study. "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."

Named in the study along with Bush were top officials of the administration during the period studied: Vice President Dick Cheney, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and White House press secretaries Ari Fleischer and Scott McClellan.

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.

The center said the study was based on a database created with public statements over the two years beginning on Sept. 11, 2001, and information from more than 25 government reports, books, articles, speeches and interviews.

"The cumulative effect of these false statements — amplified by thousands of news stories and broadcasts — was massive, with the media coverage creating an almost impenetrable din for several critical months in the run-up to war," the study concluded.

"Some journalists — indeed, even some entire news organizations — have since acknowledged that their coverage during those prewar months was far too deferential and uncritical. These mea culpas notwithstanding, much of the wall-to-wall media coverage provided additional, 'independent' validation of the Bush administration's false statements about Iraq," it said.

Something...what was it..

AH yes

What is a "Lie" again?


Oh Bushie...
Cazart!

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non, you know this is nothing new - many have known this iraq business was bs from the get go. doesnt matter, no evidence will ever, ever sway the bush supporters. denial is all that keeps these people going, dont take it away from them.

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https://www.voteforchange.com/

Hmm........

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Barbara Streisand contributes to one of these loon sites.

'nuff said.

Bush and his officials lied, but everyone else who said the same thing was honest. That's integrity!

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That organization is a Soros, Bill Moyers funded leftwing front - check it out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_...rity#Criticism

Zero cred, and I mean zzzzzzzzzeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrroooooooo.

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Blade: "more educated and literate people than Justabubba"

Justabubba: "that would include everyone"

http://politicalforum.com/showthread.php?t=27847

Notice the mind-set here....

It's great, ain't it? It's kinda like, a blood-hound catchin' a whiff, or something'.....

And this one's even better!

Ha ha - if Jesus Christ himself were to minister to Barbara Streisand, then the next time you met JC, you'd probably say, "ugh... that guy smells like Barbara Streisand, so I don't want anything to do with him".

Well - as for Blade..... I dunno, Blade, what can I say? Soros funds a "lot" of things - some of them are even conservative! Just like the Olin Foundation funds some libertarian and liberal causes too. Not everyone's ideologies go along red-and-blue lines, y'know.

But here, look at this: here's their web site - now surf around here a little, and tell me what you think.

http://www.publicintegrity.org/hired...t.aspx?aid=835

Click under "investigations", where it says "Lobby Watch". Pretty neat, eh?

The fact remains that the statements were false. All 935 of them. Soros hardly changes that.

Well, not to rain on their parade, but we already knew that.

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