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Octafish

(55,745 posts) Mon Feb 9, 2015, 12:31 PM Feb 2015

Anyone remember when Bush lied America into war on Iraq? [View all]

Talking Poppy George Herbert Walker Bush, courtesy of Hill & Knowlton, back in 1991:

The Kuwait ambassador's daughter, committing perjury on behalf of the administration as she tells the US Congress she was a nurse at a Kuwaiti City hospital who saw the Iraqi soldiers take babies from their incubators and leave them on the cold, hard floor so they could steal the incubators for babes in Baghdad.

"If I wanted to lie, or if we wanted to lie, if we wanted to exaggerate, I wouldn't use my daughter to do so. I could easily buy other people to do it." -- Kuwait Ambassador

So. Who did he buy?

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Anyone remember when Bush lied America into war on Iraq? [View all] Octafish Feb 2015 OP

Since it is now a proven lie, what else did he, she and so many in the chain lie about so bald facedly? Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #1

Iran-Contra edhopper Feb 2015 #3

Satellite Photos, for one thing. Octafish Feb 2015 #6

Then there were the scary "tubes" and the scary "yellow cake"... All agreed to by the mass media. Fred Sanders Feb 2015 #9

That was the Second Iraq War. Octafish Feb 2015 #10

Oh edhopper Feb 2015 #2

Seeing how they've had a 'presence' in the Oval Office since Ike... Octafish Feb 2015 #8

Politicians lie. The sad part is that so many people believe them. Even other politicians. Tierra_y_Libertad Feb 2015 #4

Even Federal Judges lie. Take Laurence SILBERMAN, please. Octafish Feb 2015 #11

With so many lies leading to wars, it's difficult to pick just one. But, let's give it try, anyway: leveymg Feb 2015 #5

FYI, Tenet refuses all requests for interviews. I've wanted to talk to him about this and his Condi stevenleser Feb 2015 #12

I know. He hasn't been interviewed since a "60 Minutes" piece in 2007 when he was marketing his book leveymg Feb 2015 #14

''All right, you've covered your ass.'' -- George W Bush to CIA briefer, August 2001. Octafish Feb 2015 #13

And his payoff from the Chimp was the Presidential Medal of Freedom, LuckyLib Feb 2015 #15

"The News" as presented in the mainstream JEB Feb 2015 #7

Another NYT-Michael Gordon Special? Octafish Feb 2015 #16