Trump says Bush lied us to war

evince said:
So trump lied?
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Not on that video. He said some things he believes--not that I agree with him on some of it-- but that's another issue. Trump did his usually blowhard, sling a few facts around, and make a statement. On the issue of impeachment he equivocated, like many politicians do. That doesn't make him a liar per se, but rather a major, world-class weasel.
 
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senate_Report_on_Pre-war_Intelligence_on_Iraq


Senate Report on Pre-war Intelligence on Iraq
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The Senate Report on Iraqi WMD Intelligence (formally, the "Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence on the U.S. Intelligence Community's Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq") was the report by the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence concerning the U.S. intelligence community's assessments of Iraq during the time leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The report, which was released on July 9, 2004, identified numerous failures in the intelligence-gathering and -analysis process. The report found that these failures led to the creation of inaccurate materials that misled both government policy makers and the American public.




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Senators John D. Rockefeller (D-WV) (the Committee's vice-chairman), Carl Levin (D-MI), and Richard Durbin (D-IL), used their additional view to say that the report painted an incomplete picture, because the Committee had put off until phase two of the investigation the key question of "how intelligence on Iraq was used or misused by Administration officials in public statements and reports." Because of this, they said, "the Committee's phase one report fails to fully explain the environment of intense pressure in which Intelligence Community officials were asked to render judgments on matters relating to Iraq when policy officials had already forcefully stated their own conclusions in public."
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Phase II of the report was publicly released on Thursday June 5, 2008 whether statements by US Government officials were substantiated by intelligence reports.

This was a bi-partisan majority report (10-5) and "details inappropriate, sensitive intelligence activities conducted by the DoD's Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, without the knowledge of the Intelligence Community or the State Department." It concludes that the US Administration "repeatedly presented intelligence as fact when in reality it was unsubstantiated, contradicted, or even non-existent. As a result, the American people were led to believe that the threat from Iraq was much greater than actually existed." These included President Bush's statements of a partnership between Iraq and Al Qa'ida, that Saddam Hussein was preparing to give weapons of mass destruction to terrorist groups, and Iraq's capability to produce chemical weapons.
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evince said:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_Street_memo



The memo, written by Downing Street foreign policy aide Matthew Rycroft, recorded the head of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) as expressing the view following his recent visit to Washington that "[George W.] Bush wanted to remove Saddam Hussein, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." It quoted Foreign Secretary Jack Straw as
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Saying Bush lied is inadequate to describe what he did, He set up a campaign of lies sending the liars to every TV news show. They gave speeches. Powell told a pack of lies to the UN. It was a campaign of deliberate deception to get a war he and his backers desperately wanted.
 
Nordberg said:
Saying Bush lied is inadequate to describe what he did, He set up a campaign of lies sending the liars to every TV news show. They gave speeches. Powell told a pack of lies to the UN. It was a campaign of deliberate deception to get a war he and his backers desperately wanted.
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so trump is right on bush.
 
AssHatZombie said:
so trump is right on bush.
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Yes. It is you who cannot understand how it worked. They were not libs.. they were Repubs working for the top 1 percent. War is good business.
Cheney was all in . Almost Bush's whole admin was energy and defense dept execs.
 
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