Comments on: Bush Caught on Tape Lying about 2003 SOTU ‘16 Words’ – Media Yawns

By: Gorge Bush

Gorge Bush — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:02:11 +0000

ALL of these so called “humans” are such extreme liars,and have no consciousness or morals/ethics ,it is so obvious to actual real thinking/feeling people.Karma never ever forgets,so I wish them good luck with being Super A-holes,they already have stamped tickets to their destination , a reality beyond their imaginations.

By: jim

jim — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 21:48:55 +0000

Maybe you should check what CIA Director Tenet said in his statement at the time — virtually the exact same thing Bush and McClellan said, that the CIA should have stopped it from being included but they did not.

You are an liar for spreading this false assertion.

By: DumbBush

DumbBush — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 03:00:47 +0000

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/bushlie.html

By: DumbBush

DumbBush — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 02:49:46 +0000

We all know Bush lied. How come the media doesn’t question him about his comments 3 weeks after 9/11 about seeing the first plane hit the WTC? He said he saw it on a TV in a classroom. The video of the first plane didn’t air till 9/12?????? Get to the root of 9/11 and all the rest is will follow.

By: Madison

Madison — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 14:40:51 +0000

The statement was put into the SOTU to deliberately deceive the American public and the world into believing that we were in jeopardy of an atomic bomb attack from Iraq.

The Brits and the Bush administration knew in 2003 that Iraq had not purchased uranium from Niger — and that the most recent overtures between Saddam’s government and the Nigerians had been in a 1999 meeting during which the subject of “expanding commercial relations” between Iraq and Niger was discussed, which the Nigerians interpreted as an entre to discussions on uranium sales. The Nigerians later said they did not pursue talks with Iraq because U.N. sanctions against Iraq would have made it impossible to transport tons of yellowcake into the country undetected.

Deception is lying. We can split hairs about the careful wordsmithing of the SOTU statement, but their intent was crystal clear. Many people who had been on the fence about invading Iraq were convinced to support the war after this statement and the others about smoking guns being mushroom clouds.

If they weren’t lying, why did they care that Wilson contradicted them? All they had to do was show their evidence — the tons of yellowcake uranium in Saddam’s arsenal. But that’s not what they did. They backed off and admitted the assertion was a “mistake.”

That’s the consistent theme of this gang. “Oh, we weren’t lying, we’re just incompetent” — to which the media, rightwingers and other Bush worshippers say, “Oh, well, then, you’re incompetent — that’s okay. Just so long as you’re not technically lying, especially lying about sex — it’s fine by us.”

By: KIT BURNS

KIT BURNS — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 22:01:14 +0000

Frankly the words were not accidentally put in. They were put in with the clear knowledge of all the players. The idea to “make someone responsible” is a diversion. Bush knew, Cheney knew, Condi knew. Powell was most probably ignored.

By: Quinto

Quinto — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 21:55:47 +0000

Sorry, Madison, but the statement was not based on the forged Italian document. Part of those 16 words were, “British intelligence has learned …” and that is 100% factually correct. Turns out, too, that what British intelligence learned was correct too, as corroborated by both the Senate Intelligence Committee and the British Butler report.

Give it up. There’s no crime here and no error.

By: Madison

Madison — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:14:23 +0000

Quinto -The White House said the statement was wrong — and the UN said the documents it was based on were forgeries:

A senior US national security adviser has said it was his fault that allegations about Iraq’s nuclear ambitions were not removed from a speech by the US president.

Stephen Hadley, America’s deputy national security adviser who reports to Condoleezza Rice, said he should have deleted a reference to claims that Iraq had tried to buy uranium in Africa from George W Bush’s State of the Union speech in January.

The UK Government had alleged that Saddam Hussein’s regime had tried to buy uranium for nuclear weapons from the West African state of Niger.

The UN later said that documents which backed the claims were forgeries, although the UK Government says it has other sources for the claims.

What we know now is that Hadley was lying when he took the blame. The CIA director removed the Niger statement, Cheney put it back in and Hadley fell on his sword. In return for doing this, apparently, he was promoted to National Security Adviser when Condi moved up from that job to sec. of state.

By: Quinto

Quinto — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:41:08 +0000

There’s only one problem here: the so-called “16 words” were not false to start with. And it’s not just right-wing bloggers saying this. It’s the non-partisan factcheck.org.

http://www.factcheck.org/article222.html

By: Make Them Accountable / Media

Make Them Accountable / Media — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:48:47 +0000

[...] Bush Caught on Tape Lying about 2003 SOTU â€˜16 Wordsâ€™ – Media Yawns Prevaricator-in-Chief: The media is ignoring the revelation yesterday that it was Vice Pres. Cheney who knowingly inserted a false statement about Iraqâ€™s nuclear program into the 2003 State of the Union speech. They are also apparently uninterested in reporting that both Pres. Bush and his spokesman Scott McClellan lied on the record in July 2003 about how the infamous 16-word statement â€” â€œThe British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.â€ â€” came to be included in the speech. [...]