How Many Times?

This is meant as an attachment to "Peacenick or War Whore". A brief reference of a handful of pivotal statements the administration has gotten wrong. Starting from the top....

"Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of nuclear weapons." George W. Bush, September 2002
Wrong

"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction." Dick Cheney, August 2002
Wrong

"We know for a fact that there are weapons there." White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer, January 2003
Wrong

"We know that Saddam Hussein is determined to keep his weapons of mass destruction...and is determined to make more." Colin Powell, February 2003
Wrong

"We know where they are, they are in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad, and east, south, west and north somewhat." Donald Rumsfeld, March 2003
Wrong

"No one ever said that we knew precisely where all of these agents were...where they were stored." Condoleezza Rice, June 2003
Liar

"I have absolute confidence that there are weapons of mass destruction inside this country. Whether we will turn out, at the end of the day, to find them in one of the 2,000 or 3,000 sites we already know about or whether contact with one of these officials who we may come in contact with will tell us, 'Oh, well, there's actually another site,' and we'll find it there, I'm not sure." Gen. Tommy Franks, April 2003
Wrong

"Before the war, there was no doubt in my mind that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, biological and chemical. I expected them to be found. I still expect them to be found." Gen. Michael Hagee, May 2003
Wrong

"Given time, given the number of prisoners now that we're interrogating, I'm confident that we're going to find weapons of mass destruction." Gen. Richard Myers, May 2003
Wrong

"Do I think we're going to find something? Yeah, I kind of do, because I think there's a lot of information out there." Maj. Gen. Keith Dayton in May of 2003
Wrong

The President, Vice President, Press Secretary, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, and 5 of our highest Generals have all turned out WRONG and their poor decisions have cost now over 3,000 lives of American soldiers, and hundreds of billions of dollars. Meanwhile, who is holding them accountable? We are headed for another great depression, and all the politicians just give a collective shrug as they look at eachother and pass the buck, isn't it time to stop being wrong?

For the love of all things holy, please people, THINK. We are all suffering as a result of this. Get involved in politics, and hold our elected officials accountable to their word and oaths of office. We the people put them into their positions, and we the people can get them out. If this were a business, they'd all be fired many times over.


It's definitely time for a new course. Not a Democratic one, but a Constitutional one.

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