Iraq - Democrats Lied About WMDs

Yesterday, former President Jimmy Carter accused the Bush Administration of manipulating pre war intelligence about Iraq's WMDs. But here's what he said back in Feb 03.

"He obviously has the capability and desire to build prohibited weapons and probably has some hidden in his country.

Here is a handy list of what the Democrats were saying about Iraq and WMDs before the election campaign.

See here for more debunking of the Bush lied myth.
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"Bush lied" campaign collapses

The Democrat's and anti-war movement's "Bush lied" campaign has collapsed.

First, weapons of mass destruction (WMD) have been found here, here, here and here.

Second, links between Saddam and Al Qaeda proven here, here, here, here and here.

Third, it seems Saddam was trying to buy Uranium from Nigeria after all.

Inquiry will back intelligence that Iraq sought uranium

That is in addition to US reveals Iraq nuclear operation

The US has revealed that it removed more than 1.7 metric tons of radioactive material from Iraq in a secret operation last month.

Fourth, there was no pressure put on US intelligence over Iraq.

The unanimous report by the panel will say there is no evidence that intelligence officials were subjected to pressure to reach particular conclusions about Iraq.

Fifth, the Iraq war was about oil alright as we can plainly see from the UN oil-for-food scandal.

The evidence proving Bush was right is also coming from some unlikely sources.

Russia Warned U.S. About Iraq, Putin Says

Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday that his intelligence service had warned the Bush administration before the U.S. invasion of Iraq that Saddam Hussein's government was planning attacks against U.S. targets both inside and outside the country.

Clinton defends successor's push for war

Clinton, who was interviewed Thursday, said he did not believe that Bush went to war in Iraq over oil or for imperialist reasons but out of a genuine belief that large quantities of weapons of mass destruction remained unaccounted for.

Noting that Bush had to be "reeling" in the wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001, Clinton said Bush's first priority was to keep al Qaeda and other terrorist networks from obtaining "chemical and biological weapons or small amounts of fissile material."

"That's why I supported the Iraq thing. There was a lot of stuff unaccounted for," Clinton said in reference to Iraq and the fact that U.N. weapons inspectors left the country in 1998.

Front Page goes further.

An article titled "The Big Lie Campaign", contains this:

In either case – and in both cases – what we are confronting in this spectacle is an unprecedented event in American political life. In the midst of a good war and a noble enterprise, a major American party [the Democrats] is engaged in an effort to stab its own country in the back for short term political gain, and is willing to do to so by the most underhanded and unscrupulous means.

Terrorists the world over must be laughing at how we are tearing ourselves apart while they make plans to speed up the process.

UPDATE: More on the Uranium - Niger - Saddam story and it was Joe Wilson who lied not Bush. Happy Anniversary to Joseph C. Wilson IV

And the The Senate Intelligence Committee Report by Dan Darling.

Also, this demolishes 2 of Richard Clarke's key claims with respect to Iraq: that there was no Iraqi involvement in terrorism post-1993, and that there is no evidence whatsoever of Iraqi support for al-Qaeda. Both of these claims, to put it quite simply, can now be shown to be factually untrue.

Here is a handy list of what the Democrats were saying about Iraq and WMDs before the election campaign.

UPDATE 2: The UK Lord Butler Report backs Blair and Bush on Iraq's attempts to buy Uranium from Niger.

499. We conclude that, on the basis of the intelligence assessments at the time, covering both Niger and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the statements on Iraqi attempts to buy uranium from Africa in the Government’s dossier, and by the Prime Minister in the House of Commons, were well-founded.

By extension, we conclude also that the statement in President Bush’s State of the Union Address of 28 January 2003 that: The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa, was well-founded.

UPDATE

More Democrats who claim Iraq had WMDs

More Chemical weapons found?

Joseph Wilson lied

I share your anger over the involvement of the ACLU, Red Cross and other humanitarian groups that want to treat the terrorists better than they deserve.

But with the world wide media being so anti-American, we unfortunately can't take the proverbial gloves off (as much as we all want to, especially including Iraqikurd) and treat the terrorist as they deserve. There is evidence that the televised beheadings and murders by the terrorists is having a negative result, opposite that which the terrorist want.

This is as much a war of guns as it is for the hearts & minds of the Iraqis and Muslims. After WWII, we could have been hard nosed with the Germans & Japanese. But they would have been humiliated and possibly rise to power like they did after WWI. After WWII we did take those responsible for crimes to task and either imprisoned them or executed them. We, or at least the Iraqis will, and they won't show the same "mercy" we are. So in the end, they'll get theirs.

I know it is hard to stomach, but please bear with it. If Iraqikurd can, its the least that we can.>

I would really like to see those who exposed the CIA prisons be indicted and jailed.

This is an email I received form Human Events about the book

Dear Fellow Conservative,
This is an email about one of the most powerful weapons of our time... "disinformation."

It's a weapon that is used on all of us over and over every day of our lives. How do I know this?

The deliberately suppressed list above is one reason. Here's another: Have you heard that Osama bin Laden is on kidney dialysis? I'll bet you have. Much of the Western media report bin Laden's presumed affliction as a matter of fact -- and most Americans believe it. But...

...it's just not true.

Now, you may well be thinking: "Why would the news media want to make me believe that Osama bin Laden is a very sick and perhaps dying man?" Well, here's why...

The news media are -- overwhelmingly -- against the Iraq War. The image of an aged, 6-foot, 8-inch Arab limping from cave to cave, trailing a camel loaded down with dialysis equipment -- eluding George W. Bush and the most powerful military in the world -- appeals to them enormously.

And so the myth lives on -- for SEVEN YEARS now! -- long past the normal life expectancy of patients hooked up to dialysis in the best hospitals, let alone the freezing, rugged mountains of the Afghan-Pakistani border.

There is a name for this phenomenon -- disinformation.

The term refers to the deliberate dissemination of FALSE information (and the intentional omission of TRUE information) for the purpose of confusing rivals or influencing public opinion.

Indeed, the false conclusion that "Bush lied, there were no WMDs in Iraq," is the main supporting claim of the anti-war Left. Without it, the movement collapses.

My name is Tom Winter, Editor in Chief of HUMAN EVENTS. It grieves me to admit that millions upon millions of Americans unknowingly accept blatant falsehoods as facts due to the power and prevalence of disinformation.

Take a look at some of the most pernicious lies that you have no doubt read or heard:

There is no connection between Iraq and al Qaeda

The U.S. funded the Taliban in the 1980s

Suitcase nukes are in place across America

Osama bin Laden was trained by the CIA

Halliburton made a fortune in Iraq

There were no Jews in the Word Trade Center on 9/11

What do each of these widely publicized, widely believed "facts" have in common? Here's what:

They are undeniably false... as you will discover in Disinformation, the new blockbuster book by veteran reporter Richard Miniter, and it will be my pleasure to send it to you FREE in hard cover, just for trying HUMAN EVENTS.

Rich Miniter's career sounds like something out of a spy thriller -- except it's real. In addition to writing for newspapers in the U.S., Western Europe, Africa and Southeast Asia, he has traveled with rebels into war zones in Uganda, Sudan and Burma and along smugglers' routes in Laos, Thailand and Cambodia.

Few reporters are more familiar with the methodology of disinformation -- the clever misdirection, false rumors, press manipulation, and endless repetition of falsehoods until they morph into "truth." Disinformation is a dark art, and Richard Miniter understands its shadings and subtleties.

The McCain Amendment -- SA 1977 -- Says The Following...

“No individual in the custody or under the physical control of the United States Government, regardless of nationality or physical location, shall be subject to cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment."

No cruel or inhuman treatment... that sounds reasonable... or does it?

But the phrase “degrading treatment” – which could have been invented by Amnesty International -- is so vague and full of holes you could drive a Hummer through it.

Solitary confinement, harsh language, ridicule, mild threats, good-cop-bad-cop -- the Senate wants to outlaw all of these standard questioning techniques and restrict interrogators to the etiquette of a ladies’ lawn party.

These terrorists are butchering women and children all over the globe -- as well as launching sneak attacks on our troops – and we’re supposed to walk on egg shells when we try to find out which Americans they intend to kill next?

Exactly what are our troops suppose to do when questioning these terrorist thugs in an attempt to save American lives?

"Pretty please Mr. terrorist... I beg you...could you please tell us the details of your NEXT attack on innocent Americans?"

That's about the size of it folks. After all, we will now have to be extra careful not to do ANYTHING THAT WOULD DEGRADE OR INSULT THESE KILLERS!

The U.S. Senate hasn’t gotten the message: We’re at war with fanatics who hate Americans.

These jihadists are willing to die for their faith, and we aren’t even willing to be ill-mannered to protect our freedom.

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