OPINION

The Administration "Re-Wronging" History

Written by AmeriPundit
Published November 30, 2005
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Perhaps all of the above helps explain why we’ve gone from a "catastrophic success" to debating a "recipe for disaster” - and why the Bush Administration should look at itself before accusing others of rewriting history.

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Additional Resources:

Sen. Carl Levin - (Newly Declassified Information Indicates Bush Administration’s Use of Pre-War Intelligence Was Misleading (Nov. 6, 2005)

Sen. Carl Levin chart comparison - Bush Administration Statements with Intelligence Community Statements on Pre-War Iraq Intelligence (Nov. 18, 2005):

The easiest to read and most illuminating chart (if only for the starkness of the difference in statements and truth) is contained at the Carnegie Endowment, which contains numerous documents relating to this issue. The chart specified by the following link is notable because it shows the evaluation placed on the threat by the UN, the NIE, and the subsequent Senate Intelligence Committee report on Iraq- mostly "No", "Maybe" and "Probably Not," while the Administration's given statement on each pre-war concern was a definitive "Yes."

For an excellent rundown on all the factors that went into "creating" the war and the subsequent assertions that the Senate and House had the "same access" to intelligence, see: The Facts: The Case for War by Emily Messner of the Washington Post (Nov.21, 2005; registration may be required).

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#1 — November 30, 2005 @ 10:28AM — Liberal

"There can be no doubt that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction." Dick Cheney

"Saddam has chemical weapons." Colin Powell

"Saddam has biological weapons." G. W. Bush

"We know he has these weapons and we know where they are." Donald Rumsfeld.

"He tried to obtain uranium from Africa." G.W. Bush

"Would I lie to you? Would I lie to you honey? Would I say something that wasn't true." Annie Lenox

#2 — November 30, 2005 @ 10:39AM — tommyd

This is the most despicable administration in US History. The filthiest, corrupt lying jackals to ever sit in DC and yet people still think these guys are just swell and are "protecting Merrika".
They are all war criminals. They have hurt the US so badly that it's beyond full repair. They're responsible for 9/11. They're responsible for the illegal wars of aggression in Afghanistan and Iraq. They're responsible for the continued selling out and hollowing out of America's middle class. They continue to allow millions of Third Worlders into America when we don't need them.

The Bush Adminstration is putting the final nails in America's coffin. Just wait and see. It's going to get worse and worse in this country.

#3 — November 30, 2005 @ 13:54PM — Nancy

Jeee-sus H. Christ! They don't even operate in "reality" - that's for the rest of us who live in the Real World. We're fucked.

#4 — November 30, 2005 @ 14:21PM — RedTard

"Just wait and see. It's going to get worse and worse in this country." - TommyD

Thanks for expressing your side's wishes in a clear, concise format.

#5 — November 30, 2005 @ 14:38PM — tommyd

ReTard, it's not my "my side's wishes" that thing's get worse in this country, it's just the realistic and logical outcome of a government gone really, really bad. Anyone one with the gift of free thought can see that the US's current policies can not, and will not, end in a good or beneficial way for the vast majority of American citizens. Empires never end well, but always with great and swift collapse.

But I guess you'll turn on FOX News tonight and believe whatever they tell you, so I might be wasting my time here.

Why is it so hard for people to see the truth of what's happening in this country and why it needs to change now!?!?!

#6 — November 30, 2005 @ 14:44PM — Nancy

Redtard & his ilk are members of a hard-core decreasing minority, as even the half-wits who voted for Bush in 04 are waking up & smelling the stench of corruption on The Hill & in the WH.

#7 — November 30, 2005 @ 15:02PM — tommyd

Nancy, you're right. The cheerleaders for war are so desperate to retain a little bit of their self-dignity after being so utterly defeated by the reality of America's illegal Iraq invasion that they're just lashing out at anyone who speaks up about the awful reality that this nation finds itself in because of following the insane delusions of grandeur by insane politicians.

Nancy, they're weak. They thought that they could boost their faux machismo by cheerleading the US military into "killing all dem Ay-rabs" when these guys know in their heart of hearts that they could never muster the bravery to actually put the rubber to the road and hook up with the front lines in Iraq.

It's all psychological with these guys. Shattered they all are.

#8 — November 30, 2005 @ 17:54PM — RedTard

I'm no cheerleader or chickenhawk, I was a member of the US armed forces and have been to Kuwait. I risked my life to disarm leftover Iraqi and US munitions so that little kids could play outside without fear of blowing themselves up.

I've been there and I know people very well who are over there now. They tell a different story than what you guys spew. I have to take personal experience and eyewitness accounts over propaganda from radicals angry because they lost in the last election.

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