Proof that Bush Misled Us Into War

[prescole]

Among the revelations coming out of Judith Miller's contact with Scooter Libby is the fact that Libby told Miller that unreleased intelligence reports supported the existence of Saddam's WMD programs. In other words, the administration fed propaganda to the media in order to create public support for the war.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9756141/site/newsweek/

This revelation gives the Democrats a fig leaf to cover their biggest boner--giving the boy president absolute power to launch the invasion of Iraq.
It should really, really piss off about 1993 familes as well.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. I recognized all of that dog and pony show to be exactly what it

was in real time.

[rodeodance]

3. this incident is an example of the power of press--in this case to "mis-

lead"

[indepat]

2. And several more whose loved ones' limbs/brains are not intact

[rodeodance]

4. here is another DU post with the Subject using 'mislead'

Sat Oct-22-05 12:50 PM
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Blix Says US Misled Itself, The World on Iraq


Bush administration officials misled themselves on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and ''then they misled the world," Hans Blix, the former United Nations chief weapons inspector said yesterday. Speaking at The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, Blix criticized the administration's actions before invading Iraq in March 2003, but stopped short of saying it intentionally fooled the public on the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

''I've never maintained that the administration deliberately misled" the public, said Blix, who headed the inspection team before the US-led military action in Iraq. ''I think they misled themselves, that we can see. And then they misled the world." Asked at a press conference later what he meant, Blix said the administration interpreted satellite pictures and Iraqi defectors' information as evidence that weapons existed in Iraq when that information was, in his opinion, inconclusive. ''They took things they saw as conclusive," he said. ''They were not critically thinking. They wanted to come to these conclusions."

Invoking Roman mythology to describe the contrasting US and European approaches to Iraq before the war, Blix said the United States was ''like an impatient Mars quick to use its strong military force to solve problems, while Europe like a patient Venus," opting for diplomacy. A Bush administration official said the White House had not heard Blix's remarks and could not comment. But, the official said, ''the president has been very clear before on the reasons for going into Iraq." In addition to the Bush administration, Blix criticized the news media for ''not devoting enough critical thinking" leading up to the Iraq war. Asked about New York Times reporter Judith Miller's recent admission that she and other journalists got it wrong on weapons of mass destruction, Blix said of the UN inspectors, ''We were not wrong."

In a story published Sunday in the Times, Miller was quoted as saying: ''WMD -- I got it totally wrong. The analysts, the experts, and the journalists who covered them -- we were all wrong." Blix said, ''We did not say there aren't any weapons of mass destruction, partly for being cautious." But, he said, the inspectors had been to more than 700 sites in 500 places in Iraq, and ''we didn't find anything."

rest of the article
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/20...

[Metta]

5. Unreleased intelligence was a lie and didn't exist.

Condi's recent testimony before Congress was debunked here a couple of days ago. Someone posted her July, 2001 testimony that Saddam didn't have mass weapons or any means of being a threat.

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6. Correction; 1,996 families and 3 more pending verification...

[madmark]

7. The congress people who voted for the war authority do not deserve

cover for a vote that demonstrates either their incompetence or complicity.

[madmark]

8. An additional thought on this: If one of the democratic congress

people admitted that their vote was incompetent or based on complicitness, I guess that would be start of reconciling in my eyes, but then again maybe not, how do you rehabilitate incompetence?