The Center for Public Integrity: Administration Lied About Iraq

A new web project called The Center for Public Integrity, which focuses on ethics and integrity, concludes in a recent study that the Bush administration deliberately lied about Iraq, in order to get public support for going to war with Iraq.
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Presently the The Center for Public Integrity website is down due to public interest and technical reasons. Since people can't access the site very easily we tried gather quotes from the media on what The Center For Public Integrity has concluded about the Bush Administration, The War in Iraq and who is behind The Center.

Here is what The New York Times has to say.

The Center for Public Integrity, a research group that focuses on ethics in government and public policy, designed the new Web site to allow simple searches for specific phrases, such as “mushroom cloud” or “yellowcake uranium,” in transcripts and documents totaling some 380,000 words, including remarks by President Bush and most of his top advisers in the two years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks…. There is no startling new information in the archive, because all the documents have been published previously. But the new computer tool is remarkable for its scope, and its replay of the crescendo of statements that led to the war. Muckrakers may find browsing the site reminiscent of what Richard M. Nixon used to dismissively call “wallowing in Watergate.”

The database is online at publicintegrity.org.

"Charles Lewis and Mark Reading-Smith of the research center say their work has documented “at least 935 false statements” on hundreds of occasions, particularly that Iraq had unconventional weapons, links to Al Qaeda, or both."

An interesting story from FreeAmericaDigital Blog asks Did the United States go to war under false pretenses?

Did the United States go to war under false pretenses? It’s sad to say as an American, but it sure is looking that way. President Bush and his top officials made at least 935 false statements in the two years following 9/11 about the national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein’s Iraq - quote from The Center for Public Integrity.

The fact is I didn’t need these people to tell me how messed up the situation is. I like most of America drank the kool-aid. I was told, even showed pictures of weapons of mass destruction, what a dog and pony show. I was told about the intricate links between the terrorist that attacked my country and this evil man Saddam Hussein. All, as we now know was a lie, even President Bush admitted that the intelligence was wrong, I love how he said, “but big deal Saddam Hussein is such a bad man we should break every international law there is and go kill him any way”( I paraphrased). One America saw through this cloud of crap, he knew that the only way for America to keep it’s integrity was to stick strictly to the Constitution, that American is Ron Paul.

He voted to stay out of Iraq, right now over 30,000 Americans would be alive, over 200,000 Americans would have their arms and legs. War unfortunately is something that will happen, when our territory is invaded, when every possible avenue is exhausted then war is something that we will have to face.

When that day comes I will stand up and support my country. However, that day did not come. Congress never declared war as the Constitution the law of the land says we must do. We were fed lies and in the emotional time that was 9/11 we gobbled up those lies. We were duped, tricked, and in the end we have all paid the price, some of us with our lives.

CNN has the following highlights on The Center For Public Integrity Report

"Study searched database for statements by Bush, aides, in 2001-2003. Bush made 260 false statements about Iraqi weapons, al Qaeda, study says. Study accuses former Secretary of State Colin Powell of 244 false statements. Also on the list: Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, former White House spokesmen."

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