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Bush's Gargantuan Lie: Saddam Refused to "Disclose or Disarm"

Submitted by bob fertik on Tue, 2005-12-13 15:06. Evidence of Lies

During his major speech in Philadelphia on Iraq on December 12, George Bush flat-out lied to the world.

And so we gave Saddam Hussein the chance to disclose or disarm, and he refused.

Which part is the lie? Both! Saddam both disclosed and disarmed.

Saddam disarmed mostly in 1991 after Gulf War I, and the U.S. knew it because Saddam's son-in-law, Hussein Kamel, told us after he defected in 1995.

After Bush pushed the UN to adopt Resolution 1441, UN inspectors returned to Iraq and got full access to Iraq's presidential palaces and military sites. Saddam disclosed everything he had, including medium-range Al Samoud missiles that had been upgraded to travel 30km beyond their 150km limit; under pressure from the UN, Saddam "disarmed" (destroyed) them.

Interestingly, Bush told a similar lie on July 14, 2003:

"The fundamental question is, did Saddam Hussein have a weapons program? And the answer is, absolutely. And we gave him a chance to allow the inspectors in, and he wouldn't let them in. And, therefore, after a reasonable request, we decided to remove him from power..."

Bush's repeated lies about Saddam's full compliance with U.N. inspectors in 2002-2003 raise several important questions:

  1. Does Bush know that Saddam complied with all the demands of the U.N. inspectors? Did Bush know it at the time, and/or does he know it now? If he didn't know, why didn't he? Was he misled by his staff - or is he simply insane?
  2. Why hasn't the MSM noticed this Gargantuan Lie?
  3. Why have so few of the biggest progressive bloggers noticed this Gargantuan Lie? (Exceptions: Holden)

 

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