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英インディペンデント紙が「この国（英国）を戦争へと導いた５０の嘘、誇張、ひずみ及び、半面の真理」（http://www.asyura2.com/0401/war47/msg/197.html）と書いてブレア政権のウソを暴いたが、そんなものはかわいい、かわいい。ブッシュ政権のついたウソはそのざっと20倍にものぼるという。これこそブッシュウソつき猿の真骨頂、疑う人は次のニュースを見よ。
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http://www.jiji.com/jc/a?g=afp_int&k=20080124016141a
2008/01/24-09:15
イラク戦争の最初の犠牲者は「真実」＝ブッシュ政権が開戦前に９３５回のうそ
【ワシントン２３日ＡＦＰ＝時事】米ワシントンに本部を置く非営利団体『公共性保全センターは２３日、ブッシュ政権が２００３年のイラク開戦に至るまで、フセイン政権の脅威を誇張するなど９３５回に上る虚偽の声明を出していたとの研究報告を発表した。
同報告書は、ブッシュ大統領と政権はフセイン政権の脅威について巧みな情報操作を行ったと指摘した。それによると、ブッシュ政権の８人の当局者は、イラクの大量破壊兵器保有や国際テロ組織アルカイダとの関係に関する誤った発言や声明を９３５回にわたって行った。
報告書はこの中で「ブッシュ政権は誤った情報を元に国民を戦争に巻き込んだ。組織的に宣伝した結果が戦争につながった」と指摘した。
これについてペリノ大統領報道官は、「研究報告は時間を費やすのに値しないと思う。ご承知の通り、われわれ（米国）は共通の認識に立った情報に基づいて独裁政権を打倒した連合国の一員だ」と述べた。 〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕
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AFPの英文配信記事は ⇒
http://www.japantoday.com/jp/news/425973
Bush administration lied 935 times in lead-up to Iraq war: study（Japan Today）
Thursday, January 24, 2008 at 07:35 EST
WASHINGTON — U.S. President George W Bush and his top officials ran roughshod over the truth in the run-up to the Iraq war lying a total of 935 times, a study released Wednesday found.
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Bush and his then secretary of state Colin Powell made the most false statements as they sought to drum up support for the March 2003 invasion to topple Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, the study alleged.
In a damning report, the Center for Public Integrity found "935 false statements by eight top administration officials that mentioned Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction, or links to al-Qaida, on at least 532 separate occasions."
"Bush and seven of his administration's top officials methodically propagated erroneous information over the two years beginning on Sept 11, 2001," the center said.
"These false statements dramatically increased in August 2002, just prior to congressional consideration of a war resolution and during the critical weeks in early 2003 when the president delivered his State of the Union address and Powell delivered his memorable presentation to the U.N. Security Council," the CPI added.
The study calls into question "the repeated assertions of Bush administration officials that they were merely the unwitting victims of bad intelligence," it added in a statement.
The president was found to have made the most false statements referring a total of 260 times to Iraq's supposed weapons of mass destruction and al-Qaida alleged links to the Baghdad regime.
But then-secretary of state Powell only just lagged behind with 254 false communications, said the study by the center's founder Charles Lewis and researchers.
Charges that late Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein had stockpiled an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction were the main argument used publicy in parliaments around the world and in the United Nations to justify the U.S.-led invasion.
But after the invasion, they turned out to be untrue, when no weapons of mass destruction were found by the invading forces.
Former national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, then defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and ex-deputy defense secretary Paul Wolfowitz were also fingered in the study, along with former White House press secretaries Ari Fleisher and Scott McClellan.
"This is a report like no other, which calls into question more than 900 false statements that were the underpinnings of the administration's case for war," argued the CPI's Executive Director Bill Buzenberg.
Cheney, for example, on Aug 26, 2002, in an address to the Veterans of Foreign Wars national convention, asserted: "Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.
"There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us."
Former CIA chief George Tenet later noted Cheney's assertions exceeded his agency's assessments at the time, the report said.
In late September 2002, Bush with a congressional vote approaching on authorizing the use of military force in Iraq, insisted in a radio address that the Baghdad regime posed a global threat.
"The Iraqi regime possesses biological and chemical weapons, is rebuilding the facilities to make more and, according to the British government, could launch a biological or chemical attack in as little as 45 minutes after the order is given," Bush said.
"This regime is seeking a nuclear bomb, and with fissile material could build one within a year."
Other administration officials muddied the waters on the alleged relationship between Iraq and the al-Qaida terror network, the CPI said.
Asked in July 2002 if Iraq had relationships with al-Qaida terrorists, Rumsfeld said: "Sure."
Still, an assessment the same month by the Defense Intelligence Agency, confirmed by later by CIA chief Tenet, found an absence of any "compelling evidence demonstrating direct cooperation between the government of Iraq and al-Qaida."
(AFP)
- 米ブッシュ政権、イラク開戦直前に計935回の虚偽発言（AFP） クマのプーさん 2008/1/24 17:28:25
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