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All the President's Lies
Robert Parry writes, "Many Americans are cynical about what they hear from politicians - and often with good reason - but perhaps no US political leader in modern history has engaged in a pattern of lying and distortion more systematically than George W. Bush has."

Bush Wins the War of Lies
Although Liberation entitled its news review of the Baker report "Bush Wins the War of Lies," its new editor in chief, Laurent Joffrin, argues that the report demonstrates that "the strategy of lying is collapsing," while Le Monde sees the report as a "spectacular slap across Mr. Bush's face."

The Lies That Led to War
Antiwar Group Says Leaked British Memo Shows Bush Misled Public on His War Plans
Downing Street II
More Damning Than Downing Street
Analysts Consistently Doubted Justification for War
Secret Way to War
Proof Bush Fixed The Facts
Bush Told Blair Invasion was "Inevitable"
Tenet Admits WMD 'Slam-Dunk' Remark "Dumbest Ever"
Scorecard of Evil
The 34 Scandals of George W. Bush
100 Mistakes for the President to Choose From

Administration Misleads on Missing Explosives The Bush administration is pushing the theory that the 380 tons of explosives were missing from the Al Qaqaa storage facility before the March 2003 invasion of Iraq...This theory has been in direct conflict with a Pentagon official, who told the Associate Press on Monday, "US-led coalition troops had searched Al Qaqaa in the immediate aftermath of the March 2003 invasion and confirmed that the explosives, which had been under IAEA seal since 1991, were intact."

Administration Misleads on Cost of War

New Stats Show Bush's Deficit Dishonesty  Last year, President Bush said "My Administration firmly believes in controlling the deficit and reducing it." But according the Daily Mislead, the government is soon expected to project a record federal budget deficit, even as President Bush demands more money for war in Iraq , and a $1 trillion proposal for more tax cuts.

Bush Misleads on Flu Vaccine President Bush  said the problem was that "we relied upon a company out of England."... That isn't true. Chiron Corp., the company whose vaccine plant was contaminated, is a California company - subject to regulation by the U.S. government - that operates a factory in England.

Bush Misleads on Tax Cuts President Bush said most of his tax cuts "went to low- and middle-income Americans."...An analysis by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities found that, in 2004, the top 20 percent of earners received 69.8% of the tax cuts enacted by President Bush. While the middle 20 percent of earners received an average tax cut of $647, the top 20 percent received an average tax cut of $5,055. As a result, those in the middle class are paying a greater share of the federal taxes today than they were four years ago.

Bush Misleads on Osama Bin Laden President Bush claimed that, contrary to Sen. John Kerry's assertion, he never said he was "not that concerned" about Osama Bin Laden. Bush chastised Kerry saying, "Gosh, I don't think I ever said I'm not worried about Osama bin Laden. That's kind of one of those exaggerations."...At March 13, 2002 press conference, Bush said "So I don't know where he [Osama Bin Laden] is. You know, I just don't spend that much time on him...I truly am not that concerned about him."

Cheney and Bush Mislead about Hussein/Zarqawi Connection Vice President Cheney and President Bush have repeatedly claimed that al-Qaeda had a working relationship with Saddam Hussein which justified the invasion of Iraq. The key piece of evidence Cheney and President Bush have used to support this claim was that Hussein harbored Abu Musab al Zarqawi - a suspected associated of al-Qaeda. President Bush said on 6/15/04 "Zarqawi's the best evidence of a [Hussein] connection to al Qaeda affiliates and al Qaeda."...Knight Ridder reports "a new CIA assessment undercuts the White House claim that Saddam Hussein maintained ties to al Qaeda, saying there is no conclusive evidence that the regime harbored terrorist Abu Musab al Zarqawi."

Rice Misleads Again on Iraq's Nuclear Program

Bush Sends Mixed Signals on Terrorism

Bush Misled Nation in Last Debates

Bush Tries to Keep Half Million Vets In the Dark President Bush celebrated the July 4th holiday by praising veterans, saying "we're proud of your service, we're grateful for the example you have set for America." But according the Daily Mislead more than half a million veterans are going without health care benefits owed to them - and the Bush administration has tried to keep those veterans in the dark.

Bush & Cheney Mislead on Tort Reform President Bush and Vice President Cheney continue to dishonestly claim that trial lawyers are to blame for skyrocketing health care costs. While President Bush has claimed that lawsuits cause "docs to practice medicine in an expensive way in order to protect themselves in the courthouse," ...according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO), costs from malpractice lawsuits represent less than 2% of the nation's total health care spending, and the tort reform legislation pushed by President Bush would reduce health insurance premiums by less than one-half of one percent.

Coinciding with ongoing bad news from Iraq, where Bush concedes turf and prestige to the "terrorists," "insurgents" or whatever you want to call "those people," ... Amnesty International blamed the United States for the sustained erosion of human rights and international law -- the worst in 50 years. "The global security agenda promulgated by the U.S. Administration is bankrupt of vision and bereft of principle," the report declared. "Sacrificing human rights in the name of security at home, turning a blind eye to abuses abroad and using preemptive military force when and where it chooses have neither increased security nor ensured liberty." Source

BUSH MISLEADS ON SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE

President Bush said at a press conference yesterday, "I think it is very important for people who are serving to make sure there is a separation of church and state." ... The comments, however, stand in stark contrast to new legislation that the White House is pushing that would give religious institutions taxpayer funding and allow religious charities to become directly involved in political campaigns.

President Bush expressed outrage at the abuse of Iraqi prisoners telling Arab television he thinks "this is a serious matter" and that "we will fully investigate"... However, the President has yet to answer why no action was taken to deal with the problem in the last six months --when the Administration was repeatedly warned of "widespread" abuse.

The Boycott of Taco Bell came to an end when Yum Brands CEO David Novak made an unexpected announcement, "We're ready to end this boycott, if you are," he told Lucas Benitez of the CIW (Coalition of Immokalee Workers)... Nobel Peace Prize winner and former US President Jimmy Carter responded, "While Yum's belated acknowledgement of the need for improved pay and conditions is welcome, this cannot be considered a serious proposal. Yum! is saying that only if the CIW ends its boycott will it be willing to support efforts to improve wages, and only if the rest of the industry does. This is a lost opportunity for the head of the world's largest restaurant company to take the lead in eliminating human rights abuses that he knows exist within his supply chain."

The White House continues to deny that the president immediately began planning an invasion of Iraq in the days after 9/11 ... But former British Ambassador to the United States Christopher Meyer said that President Bush made clear at a dinner with Prime Minister Tony Blair nine days after the Sept. 11 attacks that he wanted to confront Iraq.

Watch Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld contradicting his statements from the 2003 push to war on Iraq.
 

Bush claims that "we're creating jobs - good, high-paying jobs for the American citizen."... His comments come despite the country having lost more than 2 million manufacturing jobs since he was elected. In Ohio, which lost 270,000 manufacturing jobs alone, the economic crisis has raised questions about why the president last month strongly endorsed the outsourcing of U.S. jobs to cheap overseas labor markets.

Bush promised the country that his drug-industry backed Medicare bill would cost $395 billion ...just weeks after he signed the bill into law, his own budget office admitted that the bill would actually cost well over $500 billion. A new report shows that the President knew that the bill cost more than he had claimed, yet he deliberately hid the information from the public until the legislation was already signed into law.
 

Bush pledged that homosexuals "ought to have the same rights" as all other people . . . his Administration ruled that homosexuals can now be fired from the federal workforce because of their sexual orientation, ruling that federal employees will now "have no recourse if they are fired or demoted simply for being gay."
 

Bush banned goods from Burma for sale in the U.S. because of their awful human rights, narcotics and sex trafficking record... Now President Bush's official campaign is selling clothing made in Burma

In a televised presidential debate on Oct. 17, 2000, candidate Bush said, "We're one of the first states that said you can sue an HMO for denying you proper coverage."...But on Tuesday, the Bush administration argued before the U.S. Supreme Court that the same Texas law touted by candidate Bush is invalid because it is pre-empted by a federal law. This is the opposite of what then-Gov. Bush's Texas Department of Insurance argued in a lower court in 1997. link

OFFICIAL CONFIRMS BUSH PLOTTING IRAQ INVASION PRE-9/11, DESPITE PRESIDENT'S DENIAL
One day after President Bush rejected former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill's charge that he was plotting an Iraq invasion before 9/11, a new report proved his denial was dishonest.

On Monday, when Bush was asked whether the charges were true, he said, "No, the stated policy of my administration towards Saddam Hussein was very clear. Like the previous administration, we were for regime change." One White House official added,  "It's laughable to suggest that the administration was planning an invasion of Iraq that shortly after coming to office."

But according to a new ABC News report, "President Bush ordered the Pentagon to explore the possibility of a ground invasion of Iraq well before the United States was attacked on September 11th." The story quoted a White House official who attended the same National Security Council meetings as O'Neill. That official said the president's order "went beyond the Clinton administration's halfhearted attempts to overthrow Hussein without force."

This report - and O'Neill's charge - are consistent with earlier reporting noting that "invading Iraq was not a new idea for the Bush team" after September 11th. While Bush regularly invoked the terrorist attacks as the reason for war in Iraq, the Philadelphia Daily News reported that "in reality, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney, and Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz had begun making the case for an American invasion of Iraq as early as 1997 - nearly four years before the September 11th attacks and three years before President Bush took office."

BUSH CHANGES HIS WMD CLAIMS
Ignoring his previous definitive statements, President Bush this week sought to change the justification for the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Before the war, the president said there was "no doubt the Iraqi regime continues to possess the most lethal weapons ever devised," while Vice President Cheney said, "There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction...to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us."

This week, however, in the absence of any evidence of weapons of mass destruction, Bush said the war was justified not because Iraq had WMD, but because Iraq had "weapons of mass destruction-related program activities."

When asked last month about the shift from asserting Iraq "possessed" WMD, to Iraq merely exploring "WMD-related-program-activities," Bush replied, "What's the difference?"

Both President Bush and Vice President Cheney made their definitive pre-war statements repeatedly, using specific language. On chemical weapons, Bush said before the war, "the regime has produced thousands of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, sarin nerve gas, VX nerve gas" - a claim since debunked by Bush's own chief weapons inspector, David Kay, who said, "Iraq did not have a large, ongoing, centrally controlled chemical weapons program after 1991."

On biological weapons, Bush said before the war that "Iraq has at least seven mobile factories for the production of biological agents - equipment mounted on trucks and rails to evade discovery."  However, Mr. Kay reported, "We have not yet been able to corroborate the existence of a mobile biological weapons production effort." The president also claimed that "Iraq has a growing fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas." But the Washington Post later reported that the vehicles Bush cited "were never meant to spread toxins" - a fact the U.S. Air Force intelligence service had shared with the administration.

On nuclear weapons, Bush said before the war that "Iraq could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year." More famously, in last year's State of the Union, the president said Iraq "sought significant quantities of uranium
from Africa," and told Americans to fear "a mushroom cloud." Similarly, Vice President Cheney said "Saddam has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons." But Mr. Kay reported in August, "We have not uncovered evidence that Iraq undertook significant post-1998 steps to actually build nuclear weapons or produce fissile material."

On January 9, 2004, George Bush told America, "Unemployment dropped today to 5.7% [which] is a positive sign that the economy is getting better." . . . But the president didn't add that the unemployment drop occurred not because the economy was getting better, but because continued weak job growth led 309,000 people to stop looking for work. As one nonpartisan economist said, "Most of these dropouts would still be in the labor force working or trying to work if the economy were doing better," The president made no mention that only 1,000 total jobs were created in December - a "shockingly low number," where most economists had expected job growth to be around 100,000 to 150,000 for the month. 

CNN reported that in this picture Bush holds a platter of turkey and fixings as he visits with troops....too quickly the rouse was up when the Washington Post reported that the turkey, widely featured in news images of President Bush's two-hour trip to Baghdad, was an inedible, "primped" bird used for display purposes only. The Post claims that the White House "craft[s] elaborate events to showcase Bush, but they maintain that these events are designed to accurately dramatize his policies and to convey qualities about him that are real." Why do they need to work so hard on manufacturing opportunities to reveal that which is supposedly true?

President Bush made a stirring commitment to emergency action on the global AIDS epidemic in his State of the Union Address ten months ago. While the administration continues to prominently feature its plans and program on its website . . . the President seems to have forgotten his bold call to action, underfunding his own initiative, conducting his policy in secrecy and writing trade deals on the side that will undermine poorer countries access to the medicines that will save them.

President Bush told ABC News that, "We're doing everything we can to protect the troops, and it's important for their loved ones to understand that." . . .But according to recent reports, as many as 30,000 soldiers in Iraq are without body armor and are being forced to use '"Vietnam-era flak jackets" that provide insufficient protection from shrapnel and bullets. Military families across the country are so concerned about the president's negligence, that many have felt forced to raise the $1,400 personally to pay for their loved one to have the armor.
 

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