Ari Fleischer Destroys Liberal 'Bush Lied, People Died' Myth About Iraq War

Ari Fleisher is a political spin master and an outright liar to the press. Is he your trusted source?

The intel was that Iraq may still have some of the WMD weapons that the United States and NATO countries sold him during the Iran-Iraq war. In any case, that was a red herring. They didn't go to war for WMD; they went to war for oil.

This government lied about WMD, lied about yellow cake uranium from Africa, lied about Iraq links to Al-Qaeda, and covered for the many Saudi connections to 9/11. "Bush lied, and people died" is no myth.

And those Neoliberals in the Democratic Party all wanted the war too, so they were no better.

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Completely ignoring Hans Blix and the UN's team of weapons inspectors, who reported that Iraq did not have any WMDs but Bush ordered the team out so the. USA could invade anyway.

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"Earlier today, I ordered America's armed forces to strike military and security targets in Iraq. They are joined by British forces. Their mission is to attack Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programs and its military capacity to threaten its neighbors." Bill Clinton - 1998

http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/12/16/transcripts/clinton.html]http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1998/12/16/transcripts/clinton.html

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/18/panorama-iraq-fresh-wmd-claims

MI6 and CIA were told before invasion that Iraq had no active WMD

https://www.vox.com/2016/7/9/12123022/george-w-bush-lies-iraq-war

In August 2002, Dick Cheney declared, "Simply stated, there's no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction." But as Corn notes, at that time there was "no confirmed intelligence at this point establishing that Saddam had revived a major WMD operation." Gen. Anthony Zinni, who had heard the same intelligence and attended Cheney’s speech, would later say in a documentary, "It was a total shock. I couldn't believe the vice president was saying this, you know? In doing work with the CIA on Iraq WMD, through all the briefings I heard at Langley, I never saw one piece of credible evidence that there was an ongoing program.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/12/leadup-iraq-war-timeline/

1/30/01- Saddam’s removal is top item of Bush’s inaugural national security meeting. Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill later recalls, “It was all about finding a way to do it. The president saying, ‘Go find me a way to do this.'”

8/17/01 Memo to CIA from Energy Department experts eviscerates “Joe’s” theory that aluminum tubes purchased by Iraq are for nuclear centrifuges. Memo given to National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, who later claims tubes are clear evidence of Iraqi nuke program

9/12/01 According to counterterror czar Richard Clarke, “[Bush] told us, ‘I want you, as soon as you can, to go back over everything, everything. See if Saddam did this.'” Told evidence against Al Qaeda overwhelming, Bush asks for “any shred” Saddam was involved.

Oct 2001 Rumsfeld sets up own intelligence unit to look for Iraqi links to terrorism.

12/9/01 Cheney on Meet the Press: “Well, the evidence is pretty conclusive that the Iraqis have indeed harbored terrorists.” Also claims 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta met with Iraqi spy in Prague, a claim he’ll repeat long after CIA and Czechs disavow.

Jan 2002 The FBI, which favors standard law enforcement interrogation practices, loses debate with CIA Director George Tenet, and Libi is transferred to CIA custody. Libi is then rendered to Egypt. “They duct-taped his mouth, cinched him up and sent him to Cairo,” an FBI agent told reporters. “At the airport the CIA case officer goes up to him and says, ‘You’re going to Cairo, you know. Before you get there, I am going to find your mother and I’m going to fuck her.'” [Date the public knew: 6/13/04] Under torture, Libi invents tale of Al Qaeda operatives receiving chemical weapons training from Iraq. “This is the problem with using the waterboard. They get so desperate that they begin telling you what they think you want to hear,” a CIA source later tells ABC. [Date the public knew: 11/18/05]

I only posted some of the most important striking things. reading through them paints a clearer picture. this was a war Bush was determined to make happen no matter the lack of evidence, and often counter evidence. even to fabricate evidence and lie about things saying it proved WMDs when it showed the opposite.

it was a bumbling, idiot warmonger who was obssessed with going to war. Not because he had any evidence to do so, but because he wanted Saddam.


Stop trying to rewrite history.

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