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Originally Posted by Seaver
Aside from the faulty intelligence, notice not a lie, when has he? He's been supposably quoted about lying how long the war would last or how long the insurgency would continue, but those are predictions and opinions.
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I think that from now on we should refer to it not as "faulty intelligence", but as "convenient faulty intelligence that alwasy supports the administrations agendas and has repeatedly been called into question, and sometimes proven to be a lie". EX:
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"[Castro] welcomes sex tourism," Bush told a room of law enforcement officials in Florida, according to the Los Angeles Times. "Here's how he bragged about the industry," Bush said. "This is his quote: 'Cuba has the cleanest and most educated prostitutes in the world.'"
As it turns out, Bush had lifted that quotation not from an actual Castro speech but rather from a 2001 essay written by then Dartmouth University undergraduate Charles Trumbull. In the essay, Trumbull did appear to quote a Castro speech about prostitution. Sadly, the student made the quotation up.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/07...cuban_hookers/
How about this one?
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Originally Posted by Dick Clarke
I said 'Mr. President, we've done this before. We - we've been looking at this. We looked at it with an open mind, there's no connection.' He came back at me and said, 'Iraq, Saddam - find out if there's a connection.' And in a very intimidating way. I mean, that we should come back with that answer....
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To whihc Condaleeza responded:
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Originally Posted by Condaleeza Rice
I - I have never seen the president say an - anything to an - people in an intimidating way, to try to get a particular answer out of them. I know this president very well. And the president doesn't talk to his staff in an intimidating way to ask them to produce information - that is false.
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Well, Condaleezaliesalot wasn't actually there, and the only two other people in the room with Dick confirmed that president Bush said, "'Iraq, Saddam - find out if there's a connection.' in a very intimidating way.