{"id":44627,"date":"2019-03-21T07:08:11","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T12:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44627"},"modified":"2019-03-21T07:08:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T12:08:18","slug":"on-the-anniversary-of-the-iraq-invasion-bush-press-secretary-claims-bush-didnt-lie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=44627","title":{"rendered":"On The Anniversary Of The Iraq Invasion, Bush Press Secretary Claims Bush Didn\u2019t Lie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On The Anniversary Of The Iraq Invasion, Bush Press Secretary Claims Bush Didn\u2019t\u00a0Lie<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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On the sixteenth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, as the US government threatens punitive action<\/a>against International Criminal Court investigators for attempting to look into US war crimes, former George W Bush administration Press Secretary Ari Fleischer has decided to publish a Twitter thread<\/a>claiming that Bush did not lie to the world about Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is a transcript of the full thread by Fleischer:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Iraq war began sixteen years ago tomorrow. There is a myth about the war that I have been meaning to set straight for years. After no WMDs were found, the left claimed \u201cBush lied. People died.\u201d This accusation itself is a lie. It\u2019s time to put it to rest.<\/p>

The fact is that President Bush (and I as press secretary) faithfully and accurately reported to the public what the intelligence community concluded.\u00a0The CIA, along with the intelligence services of Egypt, France, Israel and others concluded that Saddam had WMD. We all turned out to be wrong. That is very different from lying.<\/p>

After the war, a bipartisan group was created to determine what went wrong, particularly why the intelligence community\u2019s conclusions about Iraq were so different from what was found on the ground after the war.\u00a0The group of experts was named the Robb-Silberman commission. It\u2019s report was issued in March 2005.\u00a0It can be found in full here<\/a>. Its key finding was that that a \u201cmajor intelligence failure\u201d took place. It also stated that no intelligence service was pressured by the Bush Administration to conclude that Saddam had WMDs.<\/p>

Here are the key quotes from their report:<\/p>

\u201cOverall Commission Finding: The Intelligence Community\u2019s performance in assessing Iraq\u2019s pre-war weapons of mass destruction programs was a major intelligence failure.<\/p>

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 \u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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