Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those
who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality.
-- John F. Kennedy

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Lies R Us!

Over at TPM Muckraker, Paul Kiel says:
Somebody had to do it. And hooray to the Center for Public Integrity and Fund for Independence in Journalism for doing it. The groups counted and documented every Bush administration false statement made in the run up to the invasion of Iraq. Every one. It was a bit like counting snowflakes, to be sure, but here's what they came up with:
They documented 935 false statements in the two years following September 11, 2001, about the national security threat posed by Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

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