TPM: Bush Lies About Al-Qaeda Captures in Iraq

[L. Coyote]

Bush Lies About Al-Qaeda Captures in Iraq
By Spencer Ackerman - August 22, 2007, 12:14 PM
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/003972.php


Some distortions are so massive and so deliberate as to constitute outright lies. See if you can spot the dishonesty in this line in President Bush's speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars' national convention today:

U.S. forces have killed or captured an average of more than 1,500 al Qaeda terrorists and other extremists every month since January.

That "and other extremists" line sure does a lot of work here. No order of battle for the insurgency is available, but all credible estimates peg al-Qaeda in Iraq as by far the smallest contingent. One rough assessment, cited byThe New York Times last month, put AQI at possessing perhaps 5,000 fighters. Yet Bush suggested this morning that the U.S. has captured as many as 12,000 members of AQI so far this year.

Since the surge began, the U.S. has had between 17,000 and 23,000 Iraqis in custody each month, ..........

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US LIES: Journalist Quit Iraqi Media Project = $96 MILLION Propaganda Project
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2860396

[Spinzonner]

1. Just like always referring to 9/11 in the context of terror and Iraq at the same

time though not directly linking them

[bananarepublican]

2. The only qualification for being a foreign terrorist is that you have been killed.

'Operation Pheonix' anyone?