Why do people now say that Bush lied about WMD in Iraq......?
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Its easier to justify their hatred of Bush. I have this argument constantly - its not a lie to state what you truly believe to be fact.
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Bush lie? Why, whatever do you mean? WHEN has he ever done THAT?\n\n;-)\n\nBy coincidence, I was on a blog and clicked a link, and here's a quote:\n\n"VIDEO: Bush Admits He Lied About Rumsfeld For Political Purposes\n\nLast week, President Bush unequivocally told a group of reporters that Defense Secretary Rumsfeld and Vice President Cheney would “remain with him until the end of his presidency, extending a job guarantee to two of the most-vilified members of his administration.” Bush said, “Both those men are doing fantastic jobs and I strongly support them.”\n\nToday, he announced Rumsfeld is resigning and being replaced by former CIA Director Robert Gates. At the press conference, Bush said that “the only way to answer that question, and get it on to another question, was to give you [the reporters] that answer.” Bush admitted that he had talked to Rumsfeld about resigning and was actively searching for his replacement at the time."
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Politically, it obviously wasn't a very good move, but other than that?  People seem to have forgotten the satellite images-they were hauling something...could this have been the WMD that was gone before the war was started?  Aside from that, though, we went in by using the UN resolutions as justification.  These **NUMEROUS** resolutions did not state that we could attack if Iraq has WMD, they put the burden of proof on Saddam-he had to prove that he didn't have WMD; that he had destroyed the KNOWN WMD from the 1st Gulf War.  He couldn't account for the WMD, therefore, we went in to uphold our side of the resolutions.
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Lies like "Bush lied about WMD" which has been told for years now?
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It's funny how the media has not had more coverage of something like this. It should be the F ing story of the decade at this point. It's truely sad the administration didn't come out and make an official annoucement that there was WMD in Iraq and the war is justifiable. I wonder what the anti republ... excuse me antiwar people would say then.\n\n\nTo the guy above me, that is the most ignorant response I have ever heard. Approval ratings should be low the media has done nothing but report negative things for 3 yrs now on iraq and the adminstration so it's no wonder that everyone thinks everything is going wrong over there. Man nobody even bothers to ask the soldiers anymore how it is going, I believe they are the ones who would be able to give you the best idea. From what I hear morale is high and there are plenty of unreported successes going on over there. \n\nLier? You need to look up the definition of lier.\n\nYou suffer from the crystal ball syndrome.
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Why is it that people refuse to listen to what is in front of them? Because guess what its not only the Bush family that accused Saddam of haveing WMD. Some of you probally love Clinton, and guess what he accused Saddam of haveing WMD.\nLets see now if you are saying there weren't WMD well what about the mobile chem labs? There have been reports that weapons left Iraq right before we invaded. Saddam kicked investigators out of his country more then once. He was never very open with the investigators. Why don't we get down to the truth. Its not about whether or not Bush was right or wrong about going over there, its about the exteremist liberals. They hate Bush and everything that he does. If you don't believe me then why is LESS people dieing at the front a bad thing? Why do they convently ignore the fact that it was VOTED that we went in? Why is the deaths of thousands ignored, but should one solder die its plastered on the news? Saddam KILLED his own people, and yet nobody seems bothered by what he did.\nWe ignore what suicide bombers do, but Bush is somehow worse then them. The reall crimanals are potreyed as saints, and Bush is suddenly evil to the core? Why don't we STOP the Bush BASH cause it WAS old IS old, and WILL be old.\nBy the way the short answers given out is old why not back up you answer? If you are going to bash Bush at least back up what you say. For all of you who do want to hear the truth, and not the dribble that comes out of Hollywood, Liberals, and Main Stream Media watch The O'Reilly Factor. Its on Foxnews, and they just want to send out the truth.
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That was only the first reason for going to war.  Then it was to remove Saddam, then it was to liberate Iraq, and then it was to spread democracy in the middle east.  He keeps changing the reasons to look like he knew what he was doing all along.  And he did all this because he can.  People will follow him and believe him no matter what.  Why should he tell the truth when people keep believing his lies.  There are still lots of people who will say that we did find WMDs.  People don't realize there are differences between the WMDs in the 80s, the WMDs during Clinton, and the WMDs we went to war for.
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He was lying, he admitted as much himself, end of story. What, are they going to say he was lying about lying, so that at least he told the truth twice? (LOL) Now, let's hope his previous statement (about Rummy staying until the end of his presidency) proves to be prophetic, and we can get rid of Bush, as well.
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That doesn't include two addled lies Bush uttered while trying to extricate himself from Yellowcakegate—that the CIA didn't doubt the uranium story until after he gave the speech, and that the United States went to war because Saddam wouldn't let inspectors into Iraq. Why was the yellowcake lie treated like a major news event, when the earlier lies were not?\n\n\n\n\nthat Saddam Hussein had "recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." This information was based almost entirely on documents that the CIA and the White House knew were false.\n\n\n*Saddam Hussein blocked the work of United Nations weapons inspectors in 2003.\n\n\n"The Iraqi dictator must not be permitted to threaten America and the world with horrible poisons and diseases and gases and atomic weapons."\n-- George Bush, Oct. 7, 2002, in a speech in Cincinnati.\n\nWe've learned that Iraq has trained al-Qaeda members in bomb-making and poisons and deadly gases ... Alliance with terrorists could allow the Iraqi regime to attack America without leaving any fingerprints." -- President Bush, Oct. 7.\n\n\n"We have also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas. We are concerned that Iraq is exploring ways of using these UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles] for missions targeting the United States." -- President Bush, Oct. 7. \n\nWe have seen intelligence over many months that they have chemical and biological weapons, and that they have dispersed them and that they're weaponized and that, in one case at least, the command and control arrangements have been established." -- President Bush, Feb. 8, 2003, in a national radio address.\n\n8: "Our conservative estimate is that Iraq today has a stockpile of between 100 and 500 tons of chemical weapons agent. That is enough to fill 16,000 battlefield rockets." -- Secretary of State Colin Powell, Feb. 5 2003, in remarks to the UN Security Council. \n\nWe know where [Iraq's WMD] are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south, and north somewhat." -- Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, March 30, 2003, in statements to the press.\n\n"Yes, we found a biological laboratory in Iraq which the UN prohibited." -- President Bush in remarks in Poland, published internationally June 1, 2003.
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I will not apologise.  He said there were WMD's based on the fact that he knew where they would be. It's been two years so if he does find them it's more likely that the US planted them there!  Bush has lost all credibility on Iraq.
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I assume you are talking about Iraq having WMD...in that case, I would say that based on the information he had at the time, he didn't lie.
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i love when ppl post quotes saying "yeah, well, your democrat buddies talked about the wmd's too!".\n\nthats right, they did. and then they found out that we were all lied to. so, when presented with new facts, they changed their minds about something, which is what reasonable ppl do. they dont just "stay the course" when they find out something they did/said was wrong. \n\ncheney is a giant douche, a walking pile of living garbage, a crooked business man, and a hypocrite. he's so old that he cant tell the difference between an 80 year old man and an oxygen deprived pigeon, and it causes him to shoot people in the face. for as long as i can remember, we've been made aware that Saddam is one of the bad guys.... then shouldnt any good american steer away from doing business with him? \n\nfunny, there are a lot of pictures of him shaking hands with saddam..... but, i guess oil can buy a nicer for you opinion any day.
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Who knows?  They lie to us all the time.  I don't believe ANYTHING on the media about this war stuff.  Even Bush doesn't seem convinced.  He knows that we MAY have got him, but either way the war still continues.
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The is no need for evidence as to whether Saddam had WMD's, of course he HAD them. The U.S. sold them to him when he was an ally in the 1980's.As to where they are now, he used quite a few during his years in power before Desert Storm, probably used a few more since then. As to where they are now, if Bush and his boys weren't able to find them, is there a possibility that they are truly gone and Saddam told the truth, or is that not liberal enough a question?
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Most of them actually don't know. In fact, most of them think that Saddam was hiding WMDs and that we actually found some. You can thank Sean Hannity and the rest of the dolts at Fox News for these perversions of reality.
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For those who still say Bushy is not lying:\n\nIn the Bush administration "the negation of truth is so systematic. Dishonest accounting, willful scientific illiteracy, bowdlerized federal fact sheets, payola paid to putative journalists, 'news' networks run by right-wing apparatchiks, think tanks devoted to propaganda rather than thought, the purging of intelligence gatherers and experts throughout the bureaucracy whose findings might refute the party line -- this is the machinery of mendacity...The point here is not the hypocrisy involved, though that is egregious. The point is the downgrading of truth and honesty from principles with universal meaning to partisan weapons to be sheathed or drawn as necessary. No wonder the Bush administration feels no compunction to honor the truth or seek it; it conceives truth as a tactic, valuable only insofar as it is useful against one's enemies.\n\nBush Lies In State Of The Union Speech\n\nBush: "By the year 2042, the entire [social security] system would be exhausted and bankrupt."\n\nIn what the BBC calls "highly unusual," a State of the Union Speech was interrupted by a chorus of "No's," booing, and heckles from some of the members of Congress in attendance. This happened immediately after the above Bush lie. As Shields mentioned on the PBS wrap-up, and as Brooks concurred, if adjustments are not made, by 2042, as they have been made before, 3/4 of the funds promised would still be available. The entire system would neither be exhausted nor bankrupt. -- Politex, 02.03.05\n\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\n29 Bush Lies About Iraqi WMD\n\nbush lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... not lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... lies... \nBush Lied About Lots Of Things\n\nSure Did. Here's Even More\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n\nToday's Bush Lie\n"[Castro] welcomes sex tourism," Bush told a room of law enforcement officials in Florida, according to the Los Angeles Times. "Here's how he bragged about the industry," Bush said. "This is his quote: 'Cuba has the cleanest and most educated prostitutes in the world.'"\n\n"As it turns out, Bush had lifted that quotation not from an actual Castro speech but rather from a 2001 essay written by then Dartmouth University undergraduate Charles Trumbull. In the essay, Trumbull did appear to quote a Castro speech about prostitution. Sadly, the student made the quotation up.\n\n"According to officials, the actual quotation from Castro's 1992 speech reads as follows: 'There are hookers, but prostitution is not allowed in our country. There are no women forced to sell themselves to a man, to a foreigner, to a tourist. Those who do so do it on their own, voluntarily. We can say that they are highly educated hookers and quite healthy, because we are the country with the lowest number of AIDS cases.'"\n\n"...And this isn't the first time the Internet has baffled Bush. Back in 2003, the President cited another student's thesis when making a case to go to war. The student's [plagiarized and "sexed up"] work ended up in a government document describing Iraq's weapons capability. Not exactly the kind of hard intelligence needed to justify an attack on another country." The Register, 07.28.04\n\n\n\n--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n\n10 Minute Rice: Three Lies And No Apology\n\nCondi Rice, Bush's National Security Adviser, appeared on 60 Minutes Sunday evening, but, unlike Bush anti-terrorism adviser Dick Clarke at the 9/11 Probe, she did not swear on the Bible that what she would say would be the truth. While Clarke on 60 M
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I am truly saddened by the number of people so willfully ignorant of the truth. The reasons for the Iraqi war, and the evidence about Iraq's WMD arsenals and programs is all over the web, out there for any minimally curious knowledge-seeker.\n\nYet, the web is still chock-full of fools who let others think for them and put words in their puppet mouths.\n\nHow sad. The world is turning into hysterical know-nothings.