935 onwaarheden om oorlog te kunnen voeren
Regering-Bush leugenkampioen
Meneer de president, wat vindt u van”¦?
Gelezen: Center for Public Integrity War Card
Hoe vaak werd er gelogen over Irak door de regering-bush. Alleen al in twee jaar tussen ‘9/11’ in 2001 en de invasie in Irak in 2003? Het Center for Public Integrity zocht het uit. En kreeg hulp van het Fund for Independence in Journalism.
De uitkomst: 935 onwaarheden, verdeeld over 532 publieke optreden. De bekendste waren die over de massavernietigingswapens en banden met Al-Qaida.
De verdeling
- George W. Bush: 232 keer;
- Colin Powell (Buitenlandse Zaken): 244;
- Donald Rumsfeld (Defensie): 109;
- Ari Fleischer (Witte Huis-woordvoerder): 109
- Paul Wolfowitz (onderminister Defensie): 85
- Condoleezza Rice (Veiligheidscheffin): 56
- Dick Cheney (vice-president): 38
Bush sprak 231 keer over de vernietigingswapens en 28 keer over Saddam en Al-Qaida; Powell (foto) 244 keer over de ‘weapons of mass destruction’ in Irak en tien keer over de banden met het terreurnet.
Het kan niet anders of er was sprake van een vooropgezette leugencampagne teneinde de wereld, en de VS in het bijzonder, voor te bereiden op een oorlog. Dat zeggen de onderzoekers.
Je gelooft het niet als je het leest, maar journalisten gingen ook nog even vragen wat het Witte Huis van de uitkomsten van het onderzoek vindt.
De website van het de integriteitsclub ging zojuist plat gezien het vele bezoek om het rapport te lezen. Gisteren publiceerden we over verlies van e-mail (bewijs) door Bush cs.
Zo’n zelfde onderzoek voor het kabinet Balkenende is nog niet gehouden.
Peter Olsthoorn | 23-01-08 15:34
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g.zuylekom | 24/01/08 om 13:54
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Pure Soros Propaganda from the Associated Press
Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 9:29:21 am PST
It’s hard to even know what to say about this garbage, as the media swallows whole some idiotic propaganda from George Soros-funded organizations, intentionally misrepresenting erroneous intelligence as deliberate falsehood: Study: False statements preceded war.
Just disgusting. Associated Press “journalism” finds another new bottom.
WASHINGTON – 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.”