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Iraq WMD Lies:
The Words of Mass Deception
The Lie of the Century
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How the Iraq war was sold to the US
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Also, the media can legally lie to "catapult the propaganda" - example. |
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| Dick Cheney Speech to VFW National Convention August 26, 2002 Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. |
| George W. Bush Speech to UN General Assembly September 12, 2002 Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons. |
| Ari Fleischer Press Briefing December 2, 2002 If he declares he has none, then we will know that Saddam Hussein is once again misleading the world. |
| Ari Fleischer Press Briefing January 9, 2003 We know for a fact that there are weapons there. |
| George W. Bush State of the Union Address January 28, 2003 Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent. |
| Colin Powell Remarks to UN Security Council February 5, 2003 We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction, is determined to make more. |
| George W. Bush Radio Address February 8, 2003 We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons -- the very weapons the dictator tells us he does not have. |
| Colin Powell Interview with Radio France International February 28, 2003 If Iraq had disarmed itself, gotten rid of its weapons of mass destruction over the past 12 years, or over the last several months since (UN Resolution) 1441 was enacted, we would not be facing the crisis that we now have before us . . . But the suggestion that we are doing this because we want to go to every country in the Middle East and rearrange all of its pieces is not correct. |
| Colin Powell Remarks to UN Security Council March 7, 2003 So has the strategic decision been made to disarm Iraq of its weapons of mass destruction by the leadership in Baghdad? . . . I think our judgment has to be clearly not. |
| George W. Bush Address to the Nation March 17, 2003 Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised. |
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| Ari Fleisher Press Briefing March 21, 2003 Well, there is no question that we have evidence and information that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical particularly . . . all this will be made clear in the course of the operation, for whatever duration it takes. |
| Gen. Tommy Franks Press Conference March 22, 2003 There is no doubt that the regime of Saddam Hussein possesses weapons of mass destruction. And . . . as this operation continues, those weapons will be identified, found, along with the people who have produced them and who guard them. |
| Defense Policy Board member Kenneth Adelman Washington Post, p. A27 March 23, 2003 I have no doubt we're going to find big stores of weapons of mass destruction. |
| Pentagon Spokeswoman Victoria Clark Press Briefing March 22, 2003 One of our top objectives is to find and destroy the WMD. There are a number of sites. |
| Donald Rumsfeld ABC Interview March 30, 2003 We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat. |
| Neocon scholar Robert Kagan Washington Post op-ed April 9, 2003 Obviously the administration intends to publicize all the weapons of mass destruction U.S. forces find -- and there will be plenty. |
| Ari Fleischer Press Briefing April 10, 2003 But make no mistake -- as I said earlier -- we have high confidence that they have weapons of mass destruction. That is what this war was about and it is about. And we have high confidence it will be found. |
| George W. Bush NBC Interview April 24, 2003 We are learning more as we interrogate or have discussions with Iraqi scientists and people within the Iraqi structure, that perhaps he destroyed some, perhaps he dispersed some. And so we will find them. |
| Donald Rumsfeld Press Briefing April 25, 2003 There are people who in large measure have information that we need . . . so that we can track down the weapons of mass destruction in that country. |
| George W. Bush Remarks to Reporters May 3, 2003 We'll find them. It'll be a matter of time to do so. |
| Colin Powell Remarks to Reporters May 4, 2003 I'm absolutely sure that there are weapons of mass destruction there and the evidence will be forthcoming. We're just getting it just now. |
| Donald Rumsfeld Fox News Interview May 4, 2003 We never believed that we'd just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country. |
| George W. Bush Remarks to Reporters May 6, 2003 I'm not surprised if we begin to uncover the weapons program of Saddam Hussein -- because he had a weapons program. |
| Condoleeza Rice Reuters Interview May 12, 2003 U.S. officials never expected that "we were going to open garages and find" weapons of mass destruction. |
| Maj. Gen. David Petraeus, Commander 101st Airborne Press Briefing May 13, 2003 I just don't know whether it was all destroyed years ago -- I mean, there's no question that there were chemical weapons years ago -- whether they were destroyed right before the war, (or) whether they're still hidden. |
| Gen. Michael Hagee, Commandant of the Marine Corps Interview with Reporters May 21, 2003 Before the war, there's no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical. I expected them to be found. I still expect them to be found. |
| Gen. Richard Myers, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff NBC Today Show interview May 26, 2003 Given time, given the number of prisoners now that we're interrogating, I'm confident that we're going to find weapons of mass destruction. |
| Donald Rumsfeld Remarks to the Council on Foreign Relations May 27, 2003 They may have had time to destroy them, and I don't know the answer. |
| Paul Wolfowitz Vanity Fair interview May 28, 2003 For bureaucratic reasons, we settled on one issue, weapons of mass destruction (as justification for invading Iraq) because it was the one reason everyone could agree on. |
| Lt. Gen. James Conway, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force Press Interview May 30, 2003 It was a surprise to me then it remains a surprise to me now that we have not uncovered weapons, as you say, in some of the forward dispersal sites. Believe me, it's not for lack of trying. We've been to virtually every ammunition supply point between the Kuwaiti border and Baghdad, but they're simply not there. |
| Maj. Gen. Keith Dayton, Defense Intelligence Agency Press Conference May 30, 2003 Do I think we're going to find something? Yeah, I kind of do, because I think there's a lot of information out there." |
| Based on extensive interviews with both US investigators and Iraqi scientists, the Washington Post, which
pursued an editorial policy in clear support of the war, found that Iraq not only did not possess any of the
claimed weapons, but also lacked the material conditions to even create them. Its scientific institutions and
factories had been thoroughly beaten down by 12 years of conflict, arms embargo and strangling economic
sanctions, the Post found. [I]nvestigators said they have discovered no work on former germ-warfare agents...that led US scientists on a highly classified hunt for several months... And they found the former nuclear weapons program, described as a grave and gathering danger by President Bush and a mortal threat by Vice President Cheney, in much the same shattered state left by UN inspectors in the 1990s, the Post reported. [WSWS] |
THE
BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S PUBLIC STATEMENTS ON IRAQ The Waxman Report on 237 lies that sent your loved ones off to be killed and crippled in Iraq.
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| Asked why a nuclear power such as North Korea was being treated differently from Iraq, where hardly any weapons of mass destruction had been found, [Paul Wolfowitz] said: "Let's look at it simply. The most important difference between North Korea and Iraq is that economically, we just had no choice in Iraq. The country swims on a sea of oil." [Guardian 4/6/2003] |
The Story That Didnt Run In its rush to air its now discredited story about President George W. Bushs National Guard service, CBS bumped another sensitive piece slated for the same 60 Minutes broadcast: a half-hour segment about how the U.S. government was snookered by forged documents purporting to show Iraqi efforts to purchase uranium from Niger. [MSNBC]
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See also:
A Newspaper Front Page You WON'T See
The Real Reason We Are At War
Iraq Index of What Really Happened
