935 Republicans Lies, Thousands of People die

About 2005, I had to discontinue an ongoing exchange with some intellectually dishonest or just flat stupid conservatives/libertarians. After the debacle of Katrina and after the debacle of the Iraq war they still defended the Bush administration and even went so far as to refuse to acknowledge that the administration had lied us into war.

One of the group, who fancied himself especially well read, said "the jury is still out on that." ...circa 2005.

Turns out, the jury was in, afterall.

Luckily, today thanks to an exhaustive study by the Center for Public Integrity detailing the lies of this administration, we are one step closer to empirically asserting what everyone surmised with half a brain 5 years ago.  

The Bush administration has consistently and willing lied. About the Iraq war. About Katrina. About tax cuts. About attorney general appointments. About emails. About energy groups. About almost anything you can imagine. But the big lies are documented here. It's a good start. Something that might form the basis for sending the whole miserable, lying, lot of administration officials, past and present, to the Hague to be tried for War Crimes, and with any luck, hung from the neck until they are dead: a fate they have worked hard to earn.(normally, I don't approve of the death penalty, for the gratuituous slaughter of close to a million people--which is what the Iraqi war has caused...I'll make an exception)

The Center for Public Integrity has detailed at least 935 instances of the Bush administration lying.

These aren't little fibs, these are big whooping kill your mother and stick her in the oven kind of fibs.  A few snippets...

On at least 532 separate occasions (in speeches, briefings, interviews, testimony, and the like), Bush and these three key officials, along with Secretary of State Colin Powell, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, and White House press secretaries Ari Fleischer and Scott McClellan, stated unequivocally that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (or was trying to produce or obtain them), links to Al Qaeda, or both. This concerted effort was the underpinning of the Bush administration's case for war.

President Bush, for example, made 232 false statements about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and another 28 false statements about Iraq's links to Al Qaeda. Secretary of State Powell had the second-highest total in the two-year period, with 244 false statements about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and 10 about Iraq's links to Al Qaeda. Rumsfeld and Fleischer each made 109 false statements, followed by Wolfowitz (with 85), Rice (with 56), Cheney (with 48), and McClellan (with 14).

Here's a link to a handy search page, where you can plug in your date range or administration official or both to see how many times they lied during what period. You can also search on subject, key words or simply an individual....I can't wait to check out Dick Cheney.

Search their lies here...