PRESS TV: “WH rejects charges on Iraq war lies”
The White House has denounced a study charging that Bush administration paved the way for war in Iraq with a campaign of false claims.
The study has found that US president Bush and his top officials told hundreds of lies about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the September 11 attacks.
«I hardly think that the study is worth spending time on,» spokeswoman Dana Perino said of the Center for Public Integrity’s assessment that Bush and top aides made 935 false charges ahead of the March 2003 invasion.
The spokeswoman claimed that the study ignored statements by US lawmakers or «people around the world» reflecting what she described as a consensus that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).
Named in the study along with Bush were top officials of the administration during the period studied.
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PRESS TV: “Bush Lied His Way Into Iraq War”
A recent study reveals that the Bush administration issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq.
Statements made by Bush two years after the 2001 terrorist attacks “were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses,” Military Times quoted two nonprofit journalism organizations as saying.
The organizations combed through public statements and more than 25 government reports, books, articles, speeches and came up with 935 false statements in a two-year period.
It found that in speeches, briefings, interviews and other venues, the White House had vocally advocated 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-Qaeda or both.
“It is now beyond dispute that Iraq did not possess any weapons of mass destruction or have meaningful ties to al-Qaeda,” the report adds.
“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,” the study concluded.
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