"Why do they lie? Because they're liars!" Al Sharpton
This page contains links only from 2004 or earlier.
General News Reports
Commentary
- Does Bush think we won't notice his contradictions?
Gregory Stanford, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 24 July 2004
- Lies of Our Times
Tom Engelhardt, Mother Jones, 21 June 2004
- Bush's incredible definition of credibility
William Saletan, Slate, 14 April 2004
- Washington Pinocchios and the Lifting of the Veil
Manuel Valenzuela, Axis of Logic, 30 March 2004
- Bush & the L-Word
Nat Parry, Consortium News, 29 March 2004
- Serial Liar Bush Finally Gets Caught
Bill Gallagher, Niagara Falls Reporter, 17 February 2004
- Is W. the Biggest Liar Since LBJ?
P.M. Carpenter, History News Network, 24 February 2003
- Bush's Life of Deception
Sam Parry, ConsortiumNews, 4 November 2002
Lies That Led to War
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The Bush Administration's Public Statements on Iraq
Report prepared at the request of Rep. Henry A. Waxman
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Bush Flip Flops on Iraq
Compiled in Compassiongate
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Linking Saddam Hussein with al Qaeda (below)
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Joseph Wilson, the Niger Forgery, and Valerie Plame below)
- Also see Richard Clarke (separate page)
- Bush Wanted To Invade Iraq If Elected in 2000
Russ Baker, Guerrilla News Network, 27 October 2004
- Thinktank: invasion aided al-Qaida
Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian, 20 October 2004
- Record shows Bush shifting on Iraq war
Marc Sandalow, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 September 2004
- U.N.: Iraqi Drones Were No Threat
Colum Lynch, Washington Post, 5 September 2004
- High Qaeda Aide Retracted Claim of Link With Iraq
Douglas Jehl, New York Times, 30 July 2004
- Claim of 400,000 bodies in Saddam-era graves is untrue
Peter Beaumont, London Observer, 18 July 2004
- Blair and Bush 'Should Have Realised Pre-War Truth on Wmd'
Gavin Cordon, The Scotsman, 18 July 2004
- Decoding the Senate Intelligence Committee Investigation on Iraq
Andrew Rosenthal, New York Times, 18 July 2004
- Defectors' Reports on Iraq Arms Were Embellished, Exile Asserts
Jim Dwyer, New York Times, 9 July 2004
- How a baseless conspiracy theory took the U.S. to war
Peter Bergen, The Guardian, 5 July 2004
- We Knew at the Time the War Began that Iraq Did Not Possess WMD
Jude Wanniski, History News Network, 5 July 2004
- Marine colonel, not Iraqis, spurred toppling of Saddam statue
Los Angeles Times (in the Seattle Times), 4 July 2004
- It Depends What the Meaning of "Relationship" Is
Fred Kaplan, Slate, 17 June 2004
- About the Alleged Ties Between Saddam and Osama
White House website, New York Times, and TalkingPointsMemo.com, quoted in History News Network, 19 June 2004
- No Evidence of Mohammed Atta Meeting With Iraqi
James Risen, New York Times, 17 June 2004
- Video Shows Iraq Wedding Celebration at Site of U.S. Bombardment
Scheherezade Faramarzi, Associated Press (in the The Guardian), 23 May 2004
- Lawmakers: Bush Bypassed Congress on Military Spending
Dan Morgan, Washington Post, 11 May 2004
- What Bush said as the Iraq prison scandal unfolded
William Saletan, Slate, 5 May 2004
- Bob Woodward documents Bush's war secrets
CBS News, 18 April 2004
- Powell: Some Iraq testimony based on 'flawed' intelligence
CNN, 3 April 2004
- Iraq war wasn't justified, U.N. weapons experts say
CNN, 22 March 2004
- C.I.A. Admits It Didn't Give Weapon Data to the U.N.
Douglas Jehl and David E. Sanger, New York Times, 21 February 2004
- The Lie Factory
Robert Dreyfuss and Jason Vest, Mother Jones, January/February 2004
- US officials knew in May 2002 Iraq possessed no WMD
Peter Beaumont, Gaby Hinsliff and Paul Harris, London Observer, 1 February 2004
- Iraqi who gave British intelligence WMD claim says it was untrue
David Leigh and Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian, 27 January 2004
- Democrat Challenges Bush on Iraqi Intelligence Lapse
Douglas Jehl, New York Times, 16 January 2004
- Spies, Lies, and Weapons: What Went Wrong
Kenneth M. Pollack, The Atlantic, January/February 2004
- Rice: No Evidence Iraq Moved WMD to Syria
Associated Press (in The Guardian), 9 January 2004
- White House Faulted on Uranium Claim
Walter Pincus, Washington Post, 24 December 2003
- Pentagon and Bogus News: All Is Denied
Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 5 December 2003
- Satellite Link Allows White House to Bypass TV Networks, Provide Propaganda Direct to Local News Stations
Mike Allen, Washington Post, 15 November 2003
- Critics say John Bolton has exaggerated weapons threats from other countries
Sonni Efron, Los Angeles Times (in the Boston Globe), 10 November 2003
- Bush's Decision to Invade Iraq Happened Days after September 11th
Daily Mislead, 6 October 2003
- Report Offered Bleak Outlook About Iraq Oil
Jeff Gerth, New York Times, 5 October 2003
- New Criticism on Prewar Use of Intelligence
Carl Hulse and David E. Sanger, New York Times, 29 September 2003
- Defense Intelligence Agency Belittles Information Given by Iraq Defectors
Douglas Jehl, New York Times, 29 September 2003
- How the Bush administration's propaganda machine distorts the truth in the Middle East and at home.
Jennifer L. Buckendorff, Salon, 29 September 2003
- House Intelligence Committee: U.S. 'Had No New Evidence of WMD' in Iraq
Edward Alden, Financial Times, 28 September 2003
- Documentary asserts WMD contradictions by White House officials
Paul Mulvey, Australian News, 23 September 2003
- AP Staffer Fact-Checks Powell's UN Speech
Editor & Publisher, 9 September 2003
- The War in Iraq is Not Over and Neither Are the Lies to Justify It
Stephen Zunes, CommonDreams, 8 September 2003
- The Bush
Administration's Top 40 Lies about War and Terrorism
Steve Perry, Minneapolis City Pages (in CommonDreams), 30 July
2003
- Expert Said to Tell Legislators He Was Pressed to Distort Some Evidence
James Risen and Douglas Jehl, New York Times, 25 June 2003
- A mission in Iraq built on a lie
Robert Manne, Sydney Morning Herald, 16 June 2003
- Norwegian Weapons Inspector: US Lied About Iraq's Weapons
Aftenposten (English translation), 19 May 2003
- Linking Saddam Hussein with Al Qaeda
- Ambassador Joseph Wilson, the Niger Forgery, and Valerie Plame
- The Serious Implications Of President Bush's Hiring A Personal Outside Counsel For The Valerie Plame Investigation
John W. Dean, FindLaw, 4 June 2004
- Leak Prosecutor Seeks To Question Reporters
Susan Schmidt, Washington Post, 15 May 2004
- Cheney staff accused of role in CIA leak
Mark Memmott, USA Today, 29 April 2004
- Prosecutors Are Said to Have Expanded Inquiry Into Leak of C.I.A. Officer's Name
David Johnston and Richard W. Stevenson, New York Times, 2 April 2004
- Senior Federal Prosecutors and F.B.I. Officials Fault Ashcroft Over Leak Inquiry
David Johnston and Eric Lichtblau, New York Times, 16 October 2003
- Outing Plame Is More Damaging than All Other American Scandals
Andrew M. Schocket, History News Network, 13 October 2003
- Legal Aspects of the Plame Scandal
John W. DeanFindLaw, 10 October 2003
- C.I.A. Seeks Inquiry Into Naming of an Operative
New York Times, 28 September 2003
- White House Probed Over Leak of CIA Undercover Agent's Identity
CBS News, 28 September 2003
Lies About Administration Policies
- Words, Actions at Odds on Children's Health Care
Ceci Connolly, Washington Post, 25 September 2004
- How the Bush Administration Used 9-11 to Advance Its Agenda
Prof. Marilyn Young, History News Network, 6 September 2004
- State Dept. underreports worldwide terrorist attacks for political gain
Josh Meyer, Los Angeles Times (in the San Francisco Chronicle), 9 June 2004
- 2006 Cuts In Domestic Spending On Table
Jonathan Weisman, Washington Post, 27 May 2004
- Official Says He Was Told To Withhold Medicare Data
Amy Goldstein, Washington Post, 13 March 2004
- White House Removes Climate Change Data from Report by the E.P.A.
Andrew C. Revkin with Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times, 19 June 2003
- Lies, Damned Lies, and Bush's Tax-Cut Statistics
David E. Rosenbaum, New York Times, 25 February 2003
- George W's bloody folly
Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian, 26 June 2002
- You’re Shocked W Flip-Flopped on Free Trade?
P.M. Carpenter, History News Network, 11 March 2002
- Democrats: Bush broke prescription promise
CNN, 2 March 2002
- Democrats: Bush's Education Budget Is Less Than Promised
Robert Pear, New York Times, 13 February 2002
- Bush quotes Dorothy Day to support his plans that she would have opposed
Joan Walsh, Salon, 22 May 2001
- Letter from Dorothy Day's daughter and granddaughter, condemning Bush's distortion of her message and mission
- Worldwide terrorism-related deaths on the rise
Robert Rivas and Robert Windrem, MSNBC, 2 September 2004
Lies from the BushCheney04 Campaign
- Lies, Damned Lies, and Convention Speeches
Fred Kaplan, Slate, 2 September 2004
- GOP Prism Distorts Some Kerry Positions
Glenn Kessler and Dan Morgan, Washington Post, 3 September 2004
- Bush praises American Indian housing program but plans deep cuts
Associated Press (in the Billings Gazette, 13 August 2004
- Bush Campaign Rhetoric Makes Hay Out of Straw Men
Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 1 June 2004
- White House Is Trumpeting Programs It Tried to Cut
Robert Pear, New York Times, 19 May 2004
- President Bush applies the Powell Doctrine to running for re-election
Michael Kinsley, Slate, 23 March 2004
- Bush Misrepresents Kerry's Record on Intelligence Budget
Walter Pincus and Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 12 March 2004
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