As the Associated Press report points out:
“The study counted 935 false statements in the two-year period. It found that in speeches, briefings, interviews and other venues, Bush and administration officials stated unequivocally on at least 532 occasions that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or was trying to produce or obtain them or had links to al-Qaida or both.
“…Bush led with 259 false statements, 231 about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and 28 about Iraq's links to al-Qaida, the study found. That was second only to Powell's 244 false statements about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and 10 about Iraq and al-Qaida.”
There is now an ‘Iraq/WMD fatigue’ in the British press, encouraged by supporters of the war who want us all to forget about the lies, half-truths, distortions and exaggerations that they peddled in the run-up to the March 2003 invasion. Its now time to ‘move on’, they claim.
Of course, moving on is a means of saving their reputations and their massively inflated salaries. Remember David Aaronovitch of the Times? He proudly proclaimed in the immediate aftermath of the illegal invasion,
"If nothing is eventually found, I - as a supporter of the war - will never believe another thing that I am told by our government, or that of the US ever again. And, more to the point, neither will anyone else. Those weapons had better be there somewhere. They probably are."
Remember those words, David? Have you had a chance to look back on the 935 lies you believed and then gullibly passed on to your readers?
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Nasty, sleazy (yes, David, we're watching you) David Aaronovich's words can't be repeated often enough:
"If nothing is eventually found, I - as a supporter of the war - will never believe another thing that I am told by our government, or that of the US ever again. And, more to the point, neither will anyone else. Those weapons had better be there somewhere. They probably are."
But what is so depressing is that he presumably meant them as clever word play, as ironic.
But actually they just show that his politics - like his credibility - are made of clay.
it is not just SWP lefties who don't like you, so you can't David comfort yourself with that slurr. And it is hard to put into words how disgusting is your casual, I-don't-care-and-I-don't-think-about-it approach to the dead in Iraq is. You are infinitely more interested in promoting yourself, soothing your vanity problem, and seeing Iraq as a mere debating chamber to be used for self-promotion. Seedy. Nasty. Shameful. And above all hypocritical.
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