"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
- When secrecy protects a lie
Walter Cronkite, Denver Post, 4 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
- Want facts? Don't ask the White House
Leonard Pitts Jr., Detroit Free Press, 3 March 2004
- Serial Liar Bush Finally Gets Caught
Bill Gallagher, Niagara Falls Reporter, 17 February 2004
- Madness and Mendacity
Edwy Plenel, Le Monde (in Truthout), 20 February 2004
- W's Reality Gap
Mark Green, AlterNet, 20 February 2004
- Is Bush a Pathological Liar?
David Corn, LA Weekly, 5 December 2003
- To tell the truth is not George W. Bush's game
Ed Garvey, Madison Capital Times, 29 April 2003
- Threats, Promises and Lies
Paul Krugman, New York Times (in The Smirking Chimp), 25 February 2003
- 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
- Diagnosing Dubya
Carol Wolman, M.D., Counterpunch (in The Smirking Chimp), 2 October 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
- US gave date of war to Britain in advance, court papers reveal
Colin Brown, Independent UK, 27 October 2004
- Iraq Evidence 'Manipulated,' Inquiry Finds
Greg Miller, Los Angeles Times (in Truthout), 22 October 2004
- Former CIA chief says Iraq war was wrong
Editor & Publisher (in Truthout), 21 October 2004
- Thinktank: invasion aided al-Qaida
Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian, 20 October 2004
- The 45-minute claim was false
Marie Woolf, Independent UK, 13 October 2004
- Rewriting history to justify the Iraq war
Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball, Newsweek, 6 October 2004
- Bush and Blair's case for war is demolished
Independent UK, 7 October 2004
- No weapons, no programmes: nothing to justify the invasion
Rupert Cornwell, Independent UK, 7 October 2004
- New report calls intelligence in Iraq nuclear program 'questionable'
AFP, 4 October 2004
- Skewed Intelligence Data in March to War in Iraq
David Barstow, New York Times (in Truthout), 3 October 2004
- Record shows Bush shifting on Iraq war
Marc Sandalow, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 September 2004
- Key Bush Assertions About Iraq in Dispute
Adam Entous, Reuters, 26 September 2004
- U.N.: Iraqi Drones Were No Threat
Colum Lynch, Washington Post, 5 September 2004
- They Knew Iraq Claims Were Weak
David Sirota and Christy Harvey, In These Times, 3 August 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
- Cheney Had No New Data on Saddam, Al Qaeda - Panel
Reuters (in Truthout), 6 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
- CIA Felt Pressure to Alter Iraq Data, Author Says
Greg Miller, Los Angeles Times (in Truthout), 1 July 2004
- Source for claim Saddam trained al Qaeda agents retracts his story
Michael Isikoff, Newsweek, 5 July 2004 issue
- Gore: Bush Lied About al-Qaida, Iraq Link
Liz Sidoti, Associated Press, 24 June 2004
- CIA: No Iraqi Officer Link in al-Qaida Meeting
Knut Royce, Newsday (in Truthout), 22 June 2004
- Intelligence experts cast doubt on ties between Iraq, al-Qaida
Jonathan S. Landay, Knight-Ridder, 21 June 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 Link Between Osama and Saddam? Who Knew?
Eric Alterman, Center for American Progress (in Truthout), 17 June 2004
- No Evidence of Mohammed Atta Meeting With Iraqi
James Risen, New York Times, 17 June 2004
- Official verdict: White House misled world over Saddam
Andrew Buncombe, Independent UK, 17 June 2004
- Iraq lies, A-Z
Independent UK, 1 June 2004
- Can't find Iraqis taped in arms plot, Powell says
Mark Matthews, Baltimore Sun, 27 May 2004
- Bush Administration statements on Iraq, then and now
USA Today, 25 May 2004
- 'Re-enlist or we'll send you to Iraq': Recruiting pitch called scare tactic
Tim Jones and Michael Kilian, Chicago Tribune (in The Smirking Chimp), 24 May 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
- America quietly sacks its prize witness against Saddam
Patrick Cockburn, Independent UK, 17 April 2004
- Powell: Some Iraq testimony based on 'flawed' intelligence
CNN, 3 April 2004
- Powell Not Sure Iraq Trailers Were Labs
Barry Schweid, Associated Press, 2 April 2004
- Iraqi defector behind America's WMD claims exposed as 'out-and-out fabricator'
Andrew Gumbel, Independent UK, 29 March 2004
- White House 'exaggerated extent of WMD breakthrough'
Rupert Cornwell, Independent UK, 26 March 2004
- Iraq war wasn't justified, U.N. weapons experts say
CNN, 22 March 2004
- Iraqi exile group fed news media false information
Jonathan S. Landay and Tish Wells, Knight Ridder, 15 March 2004
- Tip alleging Iraqi bioweapons never confirmed
Walter Pincus, Washington Post, 5 March 2004
- Hans Blix Says Iraq War Was Unfounded
Associated Press (in Truthout), 24 February 2004
- The New Pentagon Papers
Karen Kwiatkowski, Salon (in Truthout), 10 March 2004
- Exposing Bush’s talking-points war
Marc Cooper, LA Weekly, 20 February 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
- Weapons 'Capacity' of Iraq Challenged
Charlie Savage, Boston Globe (in Truthout), 17 February 2004
- White House rhetoric on Iraq threat sometimes at odds with intelligence
Walter Pincus and Dana Priest, Washington Post (in the Detroit News), 7 February 2004
- British intelligence chief's bombshell: 'We were overruled on dossier'
Paul Waugh, Independent UK, 4 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
- Bush Appears to Back Down on Arms Claim Against Iraq
David E. Sanger, New York Times (in Truthout), 28 January 2004
- Democrat Challenges Bush on Iraqi Intelligence Lapse
Douglas Jehl, New York Times, 16 January 2004
- Bush was demanding excuse to invade Iraq in January 2001, says ex-treasury secretary
Andrew Gumbel, Independent UK, 12 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
- Saddam Was Held by Kurdish Forces, Drugged and Left For U.S. Troops
Agence France-Presse (in Truthout), 20 December 2003
- Senators were told Iraqi weapons could hit U.S.
John McCarthy, Florida Today (in Truthout), 15 December 2003
- Pentagon and Bogus News: All Is Denied
Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 5 December 2003
- US under pressure to back claims over Iraq firefight
Phil Reeves, Independent UK (in Truthout), 4 December 2003
- CIA Admits Lack of Specifics on Iraqi Weapons Before Invasion
Agence France Presse (in Truthout), 30 November 2003
- Neocons Leak Bad Intelligence
Jim Lobe, AlterNet, 20 November 2003
- Satellite Link Allows White House to Bypass TV Networks, Provide Propaganda Direct to Local News Stations
Mike Allen, Washington Post, 15 November 2003
- Rumsfeld Retreats, Disclaims Earlier Rhetoric
Eric Rosenberg, Ocala Star Banner, 9 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
- Analyst: White House Lied on Iraq
Donna Jackel, The Democrat and Chronicle (in Truthout), 20 October 2003
- Media Banned from Reporting on Returning Coffins
Dana Milbank, Washington Post (in Truthout), 21 October 2003
- Henry Waxman speech: 'They Lied'
Rep. Henry Waxman, D-CA, in Truthout, 16 October 2003
- Former Powell aide says Powell knew information in UN speech was false
CBS News (in Truthout), 15 October 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
- US paid $1m for 'useless intelligence' from Chalabi
Andrew Buncombe, Independent UK, 30 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
- Blix: 'Iraq War Not Justified'
Agence France-Presse (in Truthout), 18 September 2003
- Cheney Repeats Refuted Claims to Defend U.S. Actions in Iraq
Dana Milbank and Walter Pincus, Washington Post, 15 September 2003
- Wolfowitz Shifts Rationales on Iraq War
Michael Dobbs, Washington Post (in Truthout), 12 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
- The Bush Deceit
Peter D. Zimmerman, Washington Post, 14 July 2003
- The Truth Meter
Suzanne Blanchard, PhillyBurbs.com, 7 August 2003
- Impeachable offenses
Belva Ann Prycel, Lincoln County Weekly, 7 July 2003
- Bush team united Iraq front unravels
Michael Moran, MSNBC, 11 July 2003
- U.S. Gave Inaccurate Iraq Picture, Ex-Intel Official
Tabassum Zakaria, Reuters, 9 July 2003
- Bush Misled US Into Iraq War--An Official Finding?
David Corn, The Nation, 26 June 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
- U.S. Said to Twist Its Data on Iraq
John J. Lumpkin, Associated Press (in Truthout), 8 June 2003
- Hussein Bunker, Bombed at Outset of War, Never Existed
CBS News (in Truthout), 28 May 2003
- WMD Just a Convenient Excuse for War, Admits Wolfowitz
David Usborne, Independent UK (in Truthout), 30 May 2003
- Bush Officials Change Tune on Iraqi Weapons
Alan Elsner, Reuters (in Truthout), 14 May 2003
- Linking Saddam Hussein with Al Qaeda
- Post-invasion Hussein letter warning of jihadists contradicts US claims of Iraqi - al Qaeda ties
James Risen, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 January 2004
- Powell Admits No Hard Proof in Linking Iraq to Al Qaeda
Christopher Marquis, New York Times (in Truthout), 9 January 2004
- Report: Iraqi Agent Denies Meeting with 9/11 Hijacker
Reuters (in Truthout), 14 December 2003
- DoD Statement on News Reports of Al Qaeda and Iraq Connections
press release, Department of Defense, 15 November 2003
- CIA Still Finds No Evidence Saddam Tried To Arm Terrorists: Report
Agence France-Presse (in Truthout), 17 November 2003
- Cheney ties Iraq bombings to al-Qaeda
Eric Schmitt, The Age, 12 November 2003
- Iraq, 9/11 Still Linked By Cheney
Dana Priest and Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, 29 September 2003
- CIA had doubts on Iraq link to al-Qaida
Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian, 10 June 2003
- 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
- Karl Rove admits spreading story of Valerie Plame's CIA role
Murray S. Waas, American Prospect (in Truthout), 8 March 2004
- Air Force One Phone Records Subpoenaed
Tom Brune, Newsday, 5 March 2004
- Leaks Probe Is Gathering Momentum
Mike Allen and Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 26 December 2003
- Naming of agent 'was aimed at discrediting CIA'
Edward Alden, Financial Times (in Truthout), 25 October 2003
- 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
- Bush Aides Will Review Leak Notes Before Turning Them Over to the FBI
David Jackson, Dallas Morning News (in Truthout), 7 October 2003
- John Conyers Calls For Rove's Resignation Over Leak Accusations
letter (in Truthout), 7 October 2003
- Of Lies and Leaks: Bush Threatened By New Revelations
David Corn, The Nation (in Truthout), 4 October 2003
- More vicious than Tricky Dick
John W. Dean, Salon (in Truthout), 3 October 2003
- Leak of Agent's Name Causes Exposure of CIA Front Firm
Walter Pincus and Mike Allen, Washington Post (in Truthout), 4 October 2003
- Poll: 70% want independent probe of leak
Dana Milbank and Mike Allen, Washington Post (in Truthout), 2 October 2003
- Leak of Agent's Name Causes Exposure of CIA Front Firm
Walter Pincus and Mike Allen, Washington Post (in Truthout), 4 October 2003
- Bush Aide Accused of CIA Leak
Julian Borger, The Guardian (in Truthout), 1 October 2003
- Leak Accusation Stirs White House
Greg Miller, Los Angeles Times (in Truthout), 30 September 2003
- Bush Administration Is Focus of Inquiry into Leaking of CIA Agent's Identity
Mike Allen and Dana Priest, Washington Post (in Truthout), 28 September 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
- What I Didn't Find in Africa
Joseph C. Wilson 4th, New York Times (in Truthout), 6 July 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
- GAO Report Contradicts Bush Claim that Environmental Laws Hamper Military
Associated Press (in Truthout), 10 July 2002
- 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
- July Surprise
John B. Judis, Spencer Ackerman & Massoud Ansari, New Republic (in Truthout), 8 July 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 Campaign Photo-Op Crowd Didn't Speak English
Paul Vitello, Newsday (in Truthout), 12 March 2004
- Bush Misrepresents Kerry's Record on Intelligence Budget
Walter Pincus and Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 12 March 2004
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