935. That’s how many times President Bush and seven core members of his administration—including Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld—lied in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq and the six months immediately following the invasion. These administration officials—or the president himself—said there were direct links between Iraq and Al Qaeda or weapons of mass destruction 532 times. So says a new report, The War Card, co-published by public interest groups the Center for Public Integrity and the Fund for Independence in Journalism.
President Bush alone lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq 232 times and lied 28 times about Iraq’s links to Al Qaeda.
Key to The War Card project is a massive database of 380,000 words of public statements by these government officials. The lies are highlighted in yellow within the context in which they were delivered.
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