I and others have been castigated and censored for saying that President George W. Bush lied to the American people in the run-up to the U.S. war in Iraq. A study by the Center for Public Integrity and the Fund for Independence in Journalism found that Bush and other administration official made 935 false statements in the two-years before the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003. The study counted President Bush making "259 false statements, 231 about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and 28 about Iraq's links to al-Qaida" during that time.
Study: False statements preceded war
Associated Press
9:17 pm EST Tuesday 22 January 2008
A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.
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Center for Public Integrity
Fund for Independence in Journalism