How many lies are needed for an impeachment?

23 January 2008
-mikefro
Thanks to the Center for Public Integrity & Fund for Independence in Journalism we now know how many lies we were told leading up to coalition forces striking Baghdad in March 2003: 935. In a tour de force of research spent combing speeches, emails, and reports, the publication War Card: Orchestrated Deception on the Path to War details every piece of propaganda advanced by top administration officials in a 350,000 word document. This is a graph showing Time vs. Number of Lies Told:
War Card
Pretty ridiculous isn’t it? This only scratches the surface – the fine people at CPI have deposited all of the lies into a database giving you the ability to find your favorite lie! I think the true strength of this report lies within its juxtaposition of the lies proclaimed by the administration with the truth that was later uncovered: Read the rest of this entry »