Bush Bite #18 - 1 Oct 2004
Just two of the Iraq war lies
In September 2002, Bush cited a report by the International Atomic Energy Agency saying the Iraqis were "six months away from developing a weapon."
This report never existed.
In October 2002, Bush warned that Iraq has a growing fleet of unmanned aircraft that could be used "for missions targeting the United States."
His source: an apparantly "flawed" CIA report that suggested the unmanned aircraft were more of an "experiment" and "attempt" and labeled them a "serious threat to Iraq's neighbors and to international military forces in the region" -- but said nothing about them having sufficient range to threaten the United States.
Interestingly, the press almost always lets Bush off the hook, and will never actually say "he lied." They tend to consider his lies as "misstatements."
Knowing what we know now, would the press have been so soft on Bush before the Iraq war started? Probably.
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