“There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.”
— Dick Cheney, Aug. 26, 2002
Someone finally has done the math.
A nonpartisan research group has documented 935 false statements made by the Bush-Cheney administration in the run-up to the Iraq War.
Dick Cheney told only 48 of those lies, compared to 260 by President Bush, 244 by Colin Powell and 109 by Donald Rumsfeld.
The report was compiled by the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit organization of independent investigative journalists dedicated to ethics in government.
Most importantly, the study found that Bush and seven of his top officials “waged a carefully orchestrated campaign of misinformation” about the threat posed by Iraq.
Join U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.) in calling for impeachment hearings.
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In local GOP news, state Rep. Keith Gingery has renewed his efforts to saddle more young people with a criminal record.
Gingery, a Republican from Jackson, has introduced a bill for the third time that would give police more leeway in citing minors for possessing or consuming alcohol.
Gingery’s bill would make it a crime for a minor to attempt to purchase alcohol, to solicit others to purchase alcohol, to possess alcohol or to have consumed alcohol, even on private property.
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