alt.politics.gw-bush

Rep. Wexler Confronts Condoleezza Rice on Bush Administration's 935 Iraq War
Lies
Posted by Matt Corley, Think Progress on February 14, 2008 at 12:06 PM.

Last month, the Center for Public Integrity and the Fund for Independence in
Journalism released a study finding that the Bush administration made "at
least 935 false statements" preceding the invasion of Iraq. Condoleezza
Rice, who served as National Security Adviser at the time, made 56 false
statements.

During a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing yesterday, Rep. Robert
Wexler (D-FL) pressed Rice to explain the inconsistencies, asking "isn't it
true that you had intelligence that cast doubt on your repeated claims?"
"No, it's not true," replied Rice tersely.

Wexler then pointed out that Rice was lying when she said it was "not true"
and that there had been "intelligence that cast doubt" on the
administration's pre-war claims:


WEXLER: I simply asked if you had intelligence that was contrary to the
intelligence that you reported repeatedly to the American people...


RICE: Congressman, I would...


WEXLER: ... that Iraq did have weapons of mass destruction.


RICE: Congressman, I would suggest that you go back and read the key
judgments of 2002. I think that will answer your question.


WEXLER: Yes. And the answer to the question, Madam Secretary, is that, in
fact, there were contrary reports. You chose to weigh the reports.

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The saddest part about this public hearing is that it was not made very
PUBLIC. News like this should have been BLASTED all over the airwaves as was
the case of Anna Nicole Smith.

No bars were held back when the super model died last year. From sun-up to
sun-down, the airwaves rocked the nation with Smith's death. Before any
physical evidence was even apparent, the media had already prosecuted those
around her.

Why is it that the media has ALL the say on what the American people get to
see and hear? If the corporate media were doing their jobs, the story on
Rice should've been on the news sun-up to sun-down; with legal commentators
discussing the serious reprecussions of her so-called testimony. These are
stories that AFFECT real lives...American lives, and Iraqi lives.

Truth of the matter is, the lie machine was so well scripted that the mass
deceptors have forgotten where the lies began and where the lies ended.

Rice should be indicted, as well as the rest of her brood of irrational
dictatorial leaders, beginning with Cheney.

Sadly, because this story did receive so little airtime, not much will come
of this. Perhaps a pat on the back for doing such a good job at presenting
the lie as the self-proclaimed righteous people they are. Sad.


Bush


Cheney

Rice

on a guillotine.