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You people like quotes? Try these:
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB326/IraqWarPart1-Quotes.pdf
Bush lied and so did Powell, Rice, Cheney and the rest of the Neo Conservatives; thousands of our young men qnd women died and many more suffered life-long disabilities. That's a fact and no idiot-gram such as that posted above will ever change history.
You forgot these two liars.
"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous 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 F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003 | Source
"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 | Source
Yep. The fact which you cannot change however is neither Kerry nor Clinton gave the order to invade and occupy Iraq. And only George W, Bush claimed major combat operations were over under a banner which read, "Mission Accomplished". How did that work out for he and Cheney?
Bush lied and so did Powell, Rice, Cheney and the rest of the Neo Conservatives; thousands of our young men qnd women died and many more suffered life-long disabilities. That's a fact and no idiot-gram such as that posted above will ever change history.
You forgot these two liars.
"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous 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 F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003 | Source
"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 | Source
Yep. The fact which you cannot change however is neither Kerry nor Clinton gave the order to invade and occupy Iraq. And only George W, Bush claimed major combat operations were over under a banner which read, "Mission Accomplished". How did that work out for he and Cheney?
Funny that you think any of this proves anything.You people like quotes? Try these:
http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB326/IraqWarPart1-Quotes.pdf
You forgot these two liars.
"Without question, we need to disarm Saddam Hussein. He is a brutal, murderous 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 F. Kerry (D, MA), Jan. 23. 2003 | Source
"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 | Source
Yep. The fact which you cannot change however is neither Kerry nor Clinton gave the order to invade and occupy Iraq. And only George W, Bush claimed major combat operations were over under a banner which read, "Mission Accomplished". How did that work out for he and Cheney?
President Bush could not have gone to war without the support of Congress and the Senate and you bloody well know it.
Yep. The fact which you cannot change however is neither Kerry nor Clinton gave the order to invade and occupy Iraq. And only George W, Bush claimed major combat operations were over under a banner which read, "Mission Accomplished". How did that work out for he and Cheney?
President Bush could not have gone to war without the support of Congress and the Senate and you bloody well know it.
President Bush could not have gotten the support of Congress without lying to them about intelligence reports and Saddam's connections to al Qaeda the way he did in his State of the Union Address on live TV in front of the whole nation and world.
Bush told the British he was going to "fix the intel" around the policy, then he went out and did it.So, in you mind he couldn't be wrong he had to have been lying. Even though all of Congress had access to the same intel. Even though Hillary said exactly the same things and she had a direct line to the ex-president? Who even said the same things as Bush.
It is those with BDS that are making up lies.
would you explain to me why Blair is lobbying very hard to have the Emails and phone transcripts between him and Bush not published in there entirety by the Chilcot inquiry?Oh, John Hawkins? One guy's opinion certainly outweighs DECLASSIFIED BUSH GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS.
Are the words in English? DECLASSIFIED GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS.
Fuck Free Republic, Weaselzippers, World Net Daily, TMZ, the Wall Street Journal, Rachel Maddow, Bill O'Reilly, Rush Limbaugh, Glen Beck, and everything else that you have to offer. None of that compares to DECLASSIFIED BUSH ADMINISTRATION DOCUMENTS.
Bush lied, and it's not the fault of a single Democrat. Declassified government documents.
None of you fucking Republicans should be typing. You should be reading declassified Bush government documents which prove that the Iraq war was started by lies.
Whine, cry and bolivate all you want. Attack the messenger all you want but you can never, except through extreme avoidance of the truth, get around this one statement. That is unless you believe that GWB is smarter then all the democrats that supported the resolution that lead to the Iraq war.
To believe that George Bush lied about WMDs is to believe that there is a vast conspiracy to lie about WMDs that goes to the highest level of both parties & that stretches across both the pro and anti-war movements.
Of course, it's all Obama's fault. Now that we have that out of the way, Republicans are free to review the declassified Bush government documents which prove that the information on Iraq's WMD was fabricated to justify the preemptive invasion and all consequences thereafter.
The material presented in this electronic briefing book includes both essential pre-war documentation and documents produced or released subsequent to the start of military action in March 2003. Pre-war documentation includes the major unclassified U.S. and British assessments of Iraq's WMD programs; the IAEA and UNSCOM reports covering the final period prior to their 1998 departure, and between November 27, 2002, and February 2003; the transcript of a key speech by President Bush; a statement of U.S. policy toward combating WMD; the transcript of and slides for Secretary Powell's presentation to the U.N. on February 5, 2003; and documents from the 1980s and 1990's concerning various aspects of Iraqi WMD activities.
Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction
The documents suggest that the public relations push for war came before the intelligence analysis, which then conformed to public positions taken by Pentagon and White House officials. For example, a July 2002 draft of the "White Paper" ultimately issued by the CIA in October 2002 actually pre-dated the National Intelligence Estimate that the paper purportedly summarized, but which Congress did not insist on until September 2002.
U.S. Intelligence and Iraq WMD
Washington, D.C., October 4, 2010 - For nearly a year before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the British government of Prime Minister Tony Blair collaborated closely with the George W. Bush administration to produce a far starker picture of the threat from Saddam Hussein and his weapons of mass destruction (WMD) than was justified by intelligence at the time, according to British and American government documents posted today by the National Security Archive.
With the aim of strengthening the political case for going to war, both governments regularly coordinated their assessments, the records show, occasionally downplaying and even eliminating points of disagreement over the available intelligence. The new materials, acquired largely through the U.K. Freedom of Information Act and often featuring less redacted versions of previously released records, also reveal that the Blair administration, far earlier than has been appreciated until now, utilized public relations specialists to help craft the formal intelligence white papers about Iraqs WMD program.
At one point, even though intelligence officials were skeptical, the British went so far as to incorporate in their white paper allegations about Saddams nuclear ambitions because they had been made publicly by President Bush and Vice President Cheney.
THE IRAQ WAR -- PART III: Shaping the Debate
Washington, DC, March 19, 2013 The U.S. invasion of Iraq turned out to be a textbook case of flawed assumptions, wrong-headed intelligence, propaganda manipulation, and administrative ad hockery, according to the National Security Archive's briefing book of declassified documents posted today to mark the 10th anniversary of the war.
The Archive's documentary primer includes the famous Downing Street memo ("intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy"), the POLO STEP PowerPoint invasion plans (assuming out of existence any possible insurgency), an FBI interview with Saddam Hussein in captivity (he said he lied about weapons of mass destruction to keep Iran guessing and deterred), and the infamous National Intelligence Estimate about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (wrong in its findings, but with every noted dissent turning out to be accurate).
"These dozen documents provide essential reading for anyone trying to understand the Iraq war," remarked Joyce Battle, Archive senior analyst who is compiling a definitive reference collection of declassified documents on the Iraq War. "At a moment when the public is debating the costs and consequences of the U.S. invasion, these primary sources refresh the memory and ground the discussion with contemporary evidence."
A decade after the U.S. invasion of Iraq (March 19, 2003), the debate continues over whether the United States truly believed that Iraq's supposed WMD capabilities posed an imminent danger, and whether the results of the engagement have been worth the high costs to both countries. To mark the 10 th anniversary of the start of hostilities, the National Security Archive has posted a selection of essential historical documents framing the key elements of one of America's most significant foreign policy choices of recent times. The records elucidate the decision to go to war, to administer a post-invasion Iraq, and to sell the idea to Congress, the media, and the public at large.
The Iraq War Ten Years After
Bush told the British he was going to "fix the intel" around the policy, then he went out and did it.So, in you mind he couldn't be wrong he had to have been lying. Even though all of Congress had access to the same intel. Even though Hillary said exactly the same things and she had a direct line to the ex-president? Who even said the same things as Bush.
It is those with BDS that are making up lies.
It was pre-meditated, illegal and the worst thing a President has done in office.
You never heard of the Downing Street Minutes?oh yeah, your Cracker Jack prize told you this....
You never heard of the Downing Street Minutes?oh yeah, your Cracker Jack prize told you this....
If you never heard of this, then you don't know enough about the subject to even participate in a discussion about it.Please tell, shitbag....I'm sure you will give us evidence Bush used his Jedi mind tricks on the British.
Maybe you should back out now and go to some "bounce ball" thread?Downing Street memo
The "Downing Street memo" (or the "Downing Street Minutes"), sometimes described by critics of the Iraq War as the "smoking gun memo", is the note of a secret 23 July 2002 meeting of senior British Labour government, defence and intelligence figures discussing the build-up to the war, which included direct reference to classified United States policy of the time. The name refers to 10 Downing Street, the residence of the British prime minister.
The memo recorded the head of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) as expressing the view following his recent visit to Washington that "[George W.] Bush wanted to remove Saddam Hussein, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."
No weapons of mass destruction huh?
On-the-Run Terrorist Group ISIS Seizes Non-Existent Stockpile of WMDs in the Over Iraq War
If you never heard of this, then you don't know enough about the subject to even participate in a discussion about it.Please tell, shitbag....I'm sure you will give us evidence Bush used his Jedi mind tricks on the British.
Maybe you should back out now and go to some "bounce ball" thread?Downing Street memo
The "Downing Street memo" (or the "Downing Street Minutes"), sometimes described by critics of the Iraq War as the "smoking gun memo", is the note of a secret 23 July 2002 meeting of senior British Labour government, defence and intelligence figures discussing the build-up to the war, which included direct reference to classified United States policy of the time. The name refers to 10 Downing Street, the residence of the British prime minister.
The memo recorded the head of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) as expressing the view following his recent visit to Washington that "[George W.] Bush wanted to remove Saddam Hussein, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."
Like I said, you don't know enough about the subject to even discuss it with, junior.oh yeah, cocksucker....kooks like you inventing conspiracy stories that even liberals don't latch on to....
