Bush Ally Admits He Was Misled About Iraq

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Luke 12:3

Therefore whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light; and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

(((((The Associated Press reports that Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski - a strong White House ally - now says he was "misled" about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction before the war. Poland, which has about 2,400 troops in Iraq, has been touted by President Bush for its leadership, and the Administration has repeatedly cited Poland as one of the key allies in Iraq.

Kwasniewski told a small group of European reporters, "I feel uncomfortable about Iraq due to the fact that we were misled with the information on weapons of mass destruction." The remarks come just a few days after the House Government Reform Committee released a comprehensive database of "237 specific misleading statements" before the war about weapons of mass destruction and Iraq.))))

Facts need no clarification. Despite repeated warnings from the CIA and the Defense Intelligence Agency, President Bush and his administration hyped and distorted the threat that Iraq posed. And now that reality is setting in, the President wants to pin the blame on someone else. We can't let him.

[serotta]

yep, Poland was misled, the President was misled (both Bush and previously Clinton by the way), the U.N. was misled... all by the Hussein regime. There was a UN document that catalogued all WMD. Hussein offered proof that he destroyed a few of the catalogued WMD. The assumption then becomes that Iraq has the remaining WMD and that they have not been destroyed.

[Guest Sportster]

Iraq had MONTHS to move their WMD to Syria if they so chose or even to Iran or elsewhere. The long stalling by the international community on finally DOING something to Hussein facilitated this. We waited too long. They had AMPLE time to move or eliminate those weapons.....

[Nebuchadnezzar]

In a congressional report Compiled by Democratic staff of the House Government Reform Committee, the report examined assertions made by Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice who made a combined total of 237 misleading public statements on the threat posed by Iraq. Most of the statements were misleading because they expressed certainty where none existed or failed to acknowledge the doubts of intelligence officials, this demonstrated a systematic distortion of the intelligence on Iraq,

Hans Blix, the former chief United Nations weapons inspector, said that the Bush administration convinced itself of the existence of banned weapons based on dubious findings before invading Iraq and was not interested in hearing evidence to the contrary.

"They wanted to come to the conclusion that there were weapons," he said. "Like the former days of the witch hunt, if you see a black cat, well, that's evidence of the witch."

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[Guest LadyC]

READ MY KEYSTROKES:

the exact same "misleading" statements by the bush administration were being said by the CLINTON administration right up til the bitter end of his administration. this conspiracy theory that bush made stuff up is getting downright stoopid.

[Guest LadyC]

oh yeah, and there WERE wmd, hussein has used them. we went to war because saddam REFUSED to comply with 17 resolutions that demanded he either disarm or prove that he already had. now why would he refuse to show proof that he'd disarmed if he had nothing to hide?

for the record, last night i was watching an interview with hans blix, who is very insistent that the UN inspectors should go BACK into iraq BEFORE june, when the new iraqi government takes over, so they can make sure the weapons are really gone.

and yes, i heard that from blix himself, watching his very own lips move, right from the television set. yesterday.

[Guest yod]

there WERE wmd, hussein has used them. we went to war because saddam REFUSED to comply with 17 resolutions that demanded he either disarm or prove that he already had. now why would he refuse to show proof that he'd disarmed if he had nothing to hide?

This war is about ending terrorism and the nations who harbor them...and it's going to be a long one. I specifically remember Bush saying that in his State of the Union speech after 911.

Israel was reporting 6 months before we went to Iraq that those weapons were transported into Syria. They are in the Bekka Valley of Lebanon now. You'll see them soon enough....probably right before the election.

Are you mourning the loss of the one called the Butcher of Bahgdad? Iraqis aren't.

Saddam was "misleading" everyone. Evidently some are still drunk with his wine.

[Guest yod]

report Compiled by Democratic staff of the House Government Reform Committee

that's all I needed to know about this report, btw...

[Nebuchadnezzar]

Yes, we all know Saddam had weapons of mass destruction before the 1st gulf war. The reason we know this is because America gave them to him to fight the Iranians with. However, this was not the argument the Bush regime was using to deceive the world with.

What Bush was saying, was that Saddam had reconstituted his weapons program and was concealing there whereabouts. Powell told the UN that America knew where these hidden laboratories were, that they knew where Saddam

[Guest yod]

Before the first gulf war? That is selective amnesia, man.

Would you have us believe that Saddam became repentant after that? What about the 100,000 people he murdered in the South of Iraq and the Kurds in the north AFTER the first gulf war ended?

Why were UN inspectors there all through the 90s? Why did CLINTON make regime change in Iraq official US government policy in 1998? Why was the vote of UN Security Council of November 8, 2002 unanimous in it's declaration of grave consequences if Saddam didn't open his country for inspection?

Saddam "misled" everyone in the world evidently.

And I'm not interested in anything moveon has to say. They have proven themselves to be dishonest and hatemongers.

All the facts have been pointed out and you ignore them. It isn't the truth that you seek. :suspect: