10 Appalling Lies We Were Told About Iraq

Here is another summation of what the world is writing about. It’s been covered in greater depth elsewhere, but this is a nice summation.

Today, more than three months after Bush’s stirring declaration of war and nearly two months since he declared victory, no chemical, biological or nuclear weapons have been found, nor any documentation of their existence, nor any sign they were deployed in the field.

The mainstream press, after an astonishing two years of cowardice, is belatedly drawing attention to the unconscionable level of administrative deception. They seem surprised to find that when it comes to Iraq, the Bush administration isn’t prone to the occasional lie of expediency but, in fact, almost never told the truth.

What follows are just the most outrageous and significant of the dozens of outright lies uttered by Bush and his top officials over the past year in what amounts to a systematic campaign to scare the bejeezus out of everybody:
>>”Alternet: 10 Appalling Lies We Were Told About Iraq”:http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16274

Updated at 10:13 AM on August 15, 2005 | Email