Did you know that 60% of the American people believe Bush lied about WMD in Iraq?

Question

http://pollingreport.com/iraq2.htm

Maybe they remember Bush saying this:
"Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised."

People didn't think a President would lie through his teeth about why he was starting a war.

Now they do.

wittwats, if you want to argue the big difference between "intentionally misled" and "lied", go right ahead.

Answer 1

A shamefully low value aware of clear facts.

Answer 2

When we were told by Bush that he was sure enough to take us to war. that there were "the most lethal weapons ever devised in Iraq" and it turned out not to be true we must either doubt his truthfulness or his judgment. The bottom line is that he made the decision to go to war, not foreign intelligence services, the CIA or congress, and in fact most thought it was a bad idea. I suspect that a substantial number of the people who think he lied are Bush supporters, who prefer to think of him as clever liar than an incompetent. If you think him incompetent you can not really support his current policies. I am convinced by the events in Iraq over the last four years that he does not have a clue about what is going on or what to do, and that he lead us into war without giving much thought, but probably did not knowingly lie, He never bothered to find out the truth because WMD were an pretext not a reason for war.

Answer 3

Oh Brady, Brady Brady... Clinton develop into impeached for Perjury, it had no longer something to do with Monica. As to the "article".... Sorry, this is crap. The "learn team" is a front team funded via Bush-hater George Soros, and leaves out a lot of data as to be laughable. What you, the victims of BDS do no longer seem to get is that there is a distinction between accumulating and utilising tips that proves to be defective and outright mendacity. Your very own useful Shrillary, on the floor of the Senate repeated the comparable "lies" approximately WMD, as did Kerry, and Kennedy, yet, they have been telling the certainty? that they had the comparable intel as anybody else. And why did Ol' Billy Boy bomb Iraq? just to tutor he could? No. He develop into performing on Intelligence that mentioned, in very particular words, that Saddam develop into engaged on WMD and Clinton acted subsequently. Now, recover from it already!

Answer 4

I did not know this however I had already assumed it.

I am not certain that he had WMD's after 9/11. Look at it this way: if you're nation has been under attack by Americans for over a decade, and a radical Muslim militia "wakes up the sleeping Giant", it would be in your best interest to get rid of your WMDs because you know the Americans are ticked off at the radical middle east and you're already on their most wanted list- not to mention their leader is the son of the guy who waged the first war against you.

So you say "okay people of Iraq. The Americans are p****d at the radical Muslim world, which appearantly we're part of, so we better get rid of our WMDs before Bush #2 makes War #2. Now you know there's always the risk that they can fabricate the story, so we'll have to get rid of anything suspicious before they come here, even if it has nothing to do with WMDs"

It's common sense. Hussein knew he and his regime wouldn't survive and that Bush Jr. is very likely to be a chip off the old block, so they we're gonna get it no matter what, unless they got rid of EVERYTHING- which is what we wanted- right? It was in their best interest to ditch the WMDs- which I'm assuming they did on September 12th, 2001, because they knew what was coming. Why would they keep them?

And as far as inspection limitations- refer to what I said about fabrication- it happens- Nixon lied, Clinton lied, why can't Bush?

Unfortunately too many of us have fallen victim of terrorist paranoia and decided to go to war, without thinking that maybe Saddam weighed in his options and next thing you know- there's nothing- why? because he decided not to risk an invasion (tough luck) or worse- wage a suicidal nuclear war against the West.

So thanks to our hysterical behavior, we just created the largest budget deficit in American history, along with the death of 3,500 of America's finest, not counting the thousands of Iraqis and other coalition, all for the LAST PLACE that would have WMDs. What we should have asked is: who is Saddam letting store his WMDs so he can avoid an attack?

And there you haveanother poll: 65% of Americans feel less safe after the wa in Iraq- I wonder why?

Answer 5

That is most disheartening! It means 40% of my fellow citizens either can't read, are too stupid or lazy to understand the truth when faced with it,or are just too apathetic to care. Forty % is a lot of Americans. What is wrong with our country?

Well,actually it was not really a lie. The U.S. has now for so long identified its interests with those of Israel that we merely relied on all the intelligence reports that Mossad was passing us. It never occurred to our government that Israel would lie to us in order to achieve their objectives.
Just another reason why we,the U.S. should finally start having our own foreign policy and not be a tool of another country -any other country!

Answer 6

Right before the war it seemed like about 80% of people believed everything Bush was saying. Some people can be so fickle.

Answer 7

I knew that a majority believes he lied about WMD's.

http://66.218.69.11/search/cache?ei=UTF-8&p=support+for+impeachment+if+bush+lied+about+iraq+a+majority+believes+he+lied&fr=yfp-t-501&fp_ip=KR&u=www.afterdowningstreet.org/downloads/pollingonepage.pdf&w=support+impeachment+bush+lied+iraq+majority+believes+believe+lied&d=IQP6medmPpea&icp=1&.intl=us


The biggest irony is that in operation "Shock and Awe" and since (and before that in Afghanistan), the U.S. military unleashed something like 250,000 Nagasaki bombs in radiation in the Middle East, talk about your "weapons of mass destruction."

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=jelly+babies+depleted+uranium+iraq&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&vc=&fp_ip=KR

Who is it that the world needs protection from, anyhow?



And get a load of the Bushbots trying to blame the Iraq war on Clinton, now, oy vey. They just won't take responsibility, will they? The Bushbots were not marching the streets in record numbers, protesting the Iraq war, I'll tell you that - this war is all THEIRS, so they can stick it where the sun don't shine if they want to try and hang this colossal mistake on Clinton.

Who was it that wrote to Clinton before he said anything about Iraq in December, 1998, I wonder? Check out the signatures at the bottom of this letter to him:
http://newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm

The war was started by George Bush, lest we forget. In March 2003. That's when he kicked the U.N. weapons inspectors out of Iraq, and began bombing according to a schedule set by Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz. They wanted to bomb Bagdad before Ramadan, and nothing could seem to stop them, not the U.N., and not the largest mass public demonstration against a war that the world has ever seen, even noted as such in the Guiness Book of World Records.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_15,_2003_anti-war_protest

omg, get a load of joey1305 down below. He says, "Of course those same 60% never read the U.N. intelligence that led the administration to enter Iraq in the first place. Hell even your savior Hillary believed the findings."

The U.N. intelligence that led the administration to enter Iraq in the first place???

Dude, Bush failed to get a U.N. resolution to invade Iraq, so he went it alone (after bribing and blackmailing a small "coalition of the willing," let us not forget Poland, of course). The U.N. had to evacuate its staff and inspectors out of Iraq, before they could finish their job, because Bush was gonna bomb the place to kingdom come. Jesus, how do you people sleep at night, being so wrong and/or dishonest all the time?

I'll even give you a Fox News link on what happened, since your recollection of things seems so foggy:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,81343,00.html


Oh, and here's another tidbit. Did you know that, for just $1 billion of Iraq's money, Saddam would have voluntarily left Iraq, and there was no need to bomb the crap out of everything, anyways, and kill so many people? But Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz just had to have their bombing...

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/09/28/saddam-wanted-out-bush-lied-about-it/

Now here we are, 4 years later, with no end in sight, just digging a deeper hole, a 2 trillion dollar hole in projected dollar costs alone, plus the incalculable human cost.

Answer 8

Of course those same 60% never read the U.N. intelligence that led the administration to enter Iraq in the first place. Hell even your savior Hillary believed the findings.

Answer 9

Do you know that about the same percentage of people believe in little green men?

Maybe Bush honestly believed that there were WMDs. Does that mean he lied?

And even if he did, these people who harp incessantly about politicians who lie just crack me up. Isn't that part of the job description?

Wave away the pot smoke and then wake up and smell the reality.

Answer 10

Join the millitary go to iraq then tell me saddam did not kill thousands upon thousands of ppl. your'e quotes are meaningless you make me sick to the stomach. I signed up to fight and possibly die to protect YOURE freedom. I wouldve given my life happily to see that mine and your family were safe from terror. When you get back from iraq then youll have solid ground to stand on. until then shut up! My brothers died for you lady have some dam respect.. Youre telling me that the authority to have thousands of ppl die because Saddam says so is not a weapon of mass destruction. Maybe we shouldve left hitler and the nazis alone too!!!