General News Reports
List of Bush & Staff Lies
Clarence Swinney, Liberal Slant, 13 February 2003
Bush's Top Ten Flip-Flops
CBS News, 28 September 2004
Evidence is growing that the Bush administration has misled the public
The Economist, 1 April 2004
Bush is still promising $20B for New York — but has only budgeted $11B
Paul Krugman, New York Times, 8 February 2002
Bush backs away from campaign pledge to acknowledge Armenian genocide
Michael Doyle, Record Searchlight, 25 April 2001
Nobody believes Bush never planned to eliminate the offices for AIDS and race relations
Jessica Reaves, Time, 9 February 2001
Commentary
Does Bush think we won't notice his contradictions?
Gregory Stanford, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 24 July 2004
Lies of Our Times
Tom Engelhardt, Mother Jones, 21 June 2004
Bush's incredible definition of credibility
William Saletan, Slate, 14 April 2004
When secrecy protects a lie
Walter Cronkite, Denver Post, 4 April 2004
Washington Pinocchios and the Lifting of the Veil
Manuel Valenzuela, Axis of Logic, 30 March 2004
Bush & the L-Word
Nat Parry, Consortium News, 29 March 2004
Want facts? Don't ask the White House
Leonard Pitts Jr., Detroit Free Press, 3 March 2004
Serial Liar Bush Finally Gets Caught
Bill Gallagher, Niagara Falls Reporter, 17 February 2004
Madness and Mendacity
Edwy Plenel, Le Monde (in Truthout), 20 February 2004
W's Reality Gap
Mark Green, AlterNet, 20 February 2004
Is Bush a Pathological Liar?
David Corn, LA Weekly, 5 December 2003
To tell the truth is not George W. Bush's game
Ed Garvey, Madison Capital Times, 29 April 2003
Threats, Promises and Lies
Paul Krugman, New York Times (in The Smirking Chimp), 25 February 2003
Is W. the Biggest Liar Since LBJ?
P.M. Carpenter, History News Network, 24 February 2003
Bush's Life of Deception
Sam Parry, ConsortiumNews, 4 November 2002
Diagnosing Dubya
Carol Wolman, M.D., Counterpunch (in The Smirking Chimp), 2 October 2002
Lies That Led to War
The Bush Administration's Public Statements on Iraq
Report prepared at the request of Rep. Henry A. Waxman
Bush Flip Flops on Iraq
Compiled in Compassiongate
Linking Saddam Hussein with al Qaeda (below)
Joseph Wilson, the Niger Forgery, and Valerie Plame below)
Also see Richard Clarke (separate page)
Bush Wanted To Invade Iraq If Elected in 2000
Russ Baker, Guerrilla News Network, 27 October 2004
US gave date of war to Britain in advance, court papers reveal
Colin Brown, Independent UK, 27 October 2004
Iraq Evidence 'Manipulated,' Inquiry Finds
Greg Miller, Los Angeles Times (in Truthout), 22 October 2004
Former CIA chief says Iraq war was wrong
Editor & Publisher (in Truthout), 21 October 2004
Thinktank: invasion aided al-Qaida
Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian, 20 October 2004
The 45-minute claim was false
Marie Woolf, Independent UK, 13 October 2004
Rewriting history to justify the Iraq war
Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball, Newsweek, 6 October 2004
Bush and Blair's case for war is demolished
Independent UK, 7 October 2004
No weapons, no programmes: nothing to justify the invasion
Rupert Cornwell, Independent UK, 7 October 2004
New report calls intelligence in Iraq nuclear program 'questionable'
AFP, 4 October 2004
Skewed Intelligence Data in March to War in Iraq
David Barstow, New York Times (in Truthout), 3 October 2004
Record shows Bush shifting on Iraq war
Marc Sandalow, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 September 2004
Key Bush Assertions About Iraq in Dispute
Adam Entous, Reuters, 26 September 2004
U.N.: Iraqi Drones Were No Threat
Colum Lynch, Washington Post, 5 September 2004
They Knew Iraq Claims Were Weak
David Sirota and Christy Harvey, In These Times, 3 August 2004
High Qaeda Aide Retracted Claim of Link With Iraq
Douglas Jehl, New York Times, 30 July 2004
Claim of 400,000 bodies in Saddam-era graves is untrue
Peter Beaumont, London Observer, 18 July 2004
Blair and Bush 'Should Have Realised Pre-War Truth on Wmd'
Gavin Cordon, The Scotsman, 18 July 2004
Decoding the Senate Intelligence Committee Investigation on Iraq
Andrew Rosenthal, New York Times, 18 July 2004
Defectors' Reports on Iraq Arms Were Embellished, Exile Asserts
Jim Dwyer, New York Times, 9 July 2004
Cheney Had No New Data on Saddam, Al Qaeda - Panel
Reuters (in Truthout), 6 July 2004
How a baseless conspiracy theory took the U.S. to war
Peter Bergen, The Guardian, 5 July 2004
We Knew at the Time the War Began that Iraq Did Not Possess WMD
Jude Wanniski, History News Network, 5 July 2004
Marine colonel, not Iraqis, spurred toppling of Saddam statue
Los Angeles Times (in the Seattle Times), 4 July 2004
CIA Felt Pressure to Alter Iraq Data, Author Says
Greg Miller, Los Angeles Times (in Truthout), 1 July 2004
Source for claim Saddam trained al Qaeda agents retracts his story
Michael Isikoff, Newsweek, 5 July 2004 issue
Gore: Bush Lied About al-Qaida, Iraq Link
Liz Sidoti, Associated Press, 24 June 2004
CIA: No Iraqi Officer Link in al-Qaida Meeting
Knut Royce, Newsday (in Truthout), 22 June 2004
Intelligence experts cast doubt on ties between Iraq, al-Qaida
Jonathan S. Landay, Knight-Ridder, 21 June 2004
It Depends What the Meaning of "Relationship" Is
Fred Kaplan, Slate, 17 June 2004
About the Alleged Ties Between Saddam and Osama
White House website, New York Times, and TalkingPointsMemo.com, quoted in History News Network, 19 June 2004
No Link Between Osama and Saddam? Who Knew?
Eric Alterman, Center for American Progress (in Truthout), 17 June 2004
No Evidence of Mohammed Atta Meeting With Iraqi
James Risen, New York Times, 17 June 2004
Official verdict: White House misled world over Saddam
Andrew Buncombe, Independent UK, 17 June 2004
Iraq lies, A-Z
Independent UK, 1 June 2004
Can't find Iraqis taped in arms plot, Powell says
Mark Matthews, Baltimore Sun, 27 May 2004
Bush Administration statements on Iraq, then and now
USA Today, 25 May 2004
'Re-enlist or we'll send you to Iraq': Recruiting pitch called scare tactic
Tim Jones and Michael Kilian, Chicago Tribune (in The Smirking Chimp), 24 May 2004
Video Shows Iraq Wedding Celebration at Site of U.S. Bombardment
Scheherezade Faramarzi, Associated Press (in the The Guardian), 23 May 2004
Lawmakers: Bush Bypassed Congress on Military Spending
Dan Morgan, Washington Post, 11 May 2004
What Bush said as the Iraq prison scandal unfolded
William Saletan, Slate, 5 May 2004
Bob Woodward documents Bush's war secrets
CBS News, 18 April 2004
America quietly sacks its prize witness against Saddam
Patrick Cockburn, Independent UK, 17 April 2004
Powell: Some Iraq testimony based on 'flawed' intelligence
CNN, 3 April 2004
Powell Not Sure Iraq Trailers Were Labs
Barry Schweid, Associated Press, 2 April 2004
Iraqi defector behind America's WMD claims exposed as 'out-and-out fabricator'
Andrew Gumbel, Independent UK, 29 March 2004
White House 'exaggerated extent of WMD breakthrough'
Rupert Cornwell, Independent UK, 26 March 2004
Iraq war wasn't justified, U.N. weapons experts say
CNN, 22 March 2004
Iraqi exile group fed news media false information
Jonathan S. Landay and Tish Wells, Knight Ridder, 15 March 2004
Tip alleging Iraqi bioweapons never confirmed
Walter Pincus, Washington Post, 5 March 2004
Hans Blix Says Iraq War Was Unfounded
Associated Press (in Truthout), 24 February 2004
The New Pentagon Papers
Karen Kwiatkowski, Salon (in Truthout), 10 March 2004
Exposing Bush’s talking-points war
Marc Cooper, LA Weekly, 20 February 2004
C.I.A. Admits It Didn't Give Weapon Data to the U.N.
Douglas Jehl and David E. Sanger, New York Times, 21 February 2004
Weapons 'Capacity' of Iraq Challenged
Charlie Savage, Boston Globe (in Truthout), 17 February 2004
White House rhetoric on Iraq threat sometimes at odds with intelligence
Walter Pincus and Dana Priest, Washington Post (in the Detroit News), 7 February 2004
British intelligence chief's bombshell: 'We were overruled on dossier'
Paul Waugh, Independent UK, 4 February 2004
The Lie Factory
Robert Dreyfuss and Jason Vest, Mother Jones, January/February 2004
US officials knew in May 2002 Iraq possessed no WMD
Peter Beaumont, Gaby Hinsliff and Paul Harris, London Observer, 1 February 2004
Iraqi who gave British intelligence WMD claim says it was untrue
David Leigh and Richard Norton-Taylor, The Guardian, 27 January 2004
Bush Appears to Back Down on Arms Claim Against Iraq
David E. Sanger, New York Times (in Truthout), 28 January 2004
Democrat Challenges Bush on Iraqi Intelligence Lapse
Douglas Jehl, New York Times, 16 January 2004
Bush was demanding excuse to invade Iraq in January 2001, says ex-treasury secretary
Andrew Gumbel, Independent UK, 12 January 2004
Spies, Lies, and Weapons: What Went Wrong
Kenneth M. Pollack, The Atlantic, January/February 2004
Rice: No Evidence Iraq Moved WMD to Syria
Associated Press (in The Guardian), 9 January 2004
White House Faulted on Uranium Claim
Walter Pincus, Washington Post, 24 December 2003
Saddam Was Held by Kurdish Forces, Drugged and Left For U.S. Troops
Agence France-Presse (in Truthout), 20 December 2003
Senators were told Iraqi weapons could hit U.S.
John McCarthy, Florida Today (in Truthout), 15 December 2003
Pentagon and Bogus News: All Is Denied
Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 5 December 2003
US under pressure to back claims over Iraq firefight
Phil Reeves, Independent UK (in Truthout), 4 December 2003
CIA Admits Lack of Specifics on Iraqi Weapons Before Invasion
Agence France Presse (in Truthout), 30 November 2003
Neocons Leak Bad Intelligence
Jim Lobe, AlterNet, 20 November 2003
Satellite Link Allows White House to Bypass TV Networks, Provide Propaganda Direct to Local News Stations
Mike Allen, Washington Post, 15 November 2003
Rumsfeld Retreats, Disclaims Earlier Rhetoric
Eric Rosenberg, Ocala Star Banner, 9 November 2003
Critics say John Bolton has exaggerated weapons threats from other countries
Sonni Efron, Los Angeles Times (in the Boston Globe), 10 November 2003
Analyst: White House Lied on Iraq
Donna Jackel, The Democrat and Chronicle (in Truthout), 20 October 2003
Media Banned from Reporting on Returning Coffins
Dana Milbank, Washington Post (in Truthout), 21 October 2003
Henry Waxman speech: 'They Lied'
Rep. Henry Waxman, D-CA, in Truthout, 16 October 2003
Former Powell aide says Powell knew information in UN speech was false
CBS News (in Truthout), 15 October 2003
Bush's Decision to Invade Iraq Happened Days after September 11th
Daily Mislead, 6 October 2003
Report Offered Bleak Outlook About Iraq Oil
Jeff Gerth, New York Times, 5 October 2003
New Criticism on Prewar Use of Intelligence
Carl Hulse and David E. Sanger, New York Times, 29 September 2003
Defense Intelligence Agency Belittles Information Given by Iraq Defectors
Douglas Jehl, New York Times, 29 September 2003
How the Bush administration's propaganda machine distorts the truth in the Middle East and at home.
Jennifer L. Buckendorff, Salon, 29 September 2003
US paid $1m for 'useless intelligence' from Chalabi
Andrew Buncombe, Independent UK, 30 September 2003
House Intelligence Committee: U.S. 'Had No New Evidence of WMD' in Iraq
Edward Alden, Financial Times, 28 September 2003
Documentary asserts WMD contradictions by White House officials
Paul Mulvey, Australian News, 23 September 2003
Blix: 'Iraq War Not Justified'
Agence France-Presse (in Truthout), 18 September 2003
Cheney Repeats Refuted Claims to Defend U.S. Actions in Iraq
Dana Milbank and Walter Pincus, Washington Post, 15 September 2003
Wolfowitz Shifts Rationales on Iraq War
Michael Dobbs, Washington Post (in Truthout), 12 September 2003
AP Staffer Fact-Checks Powell's UN Speech
Editor & Publisher, 9 September 2003
The War in Iraq is Not Over and Neither Are the Lies to Justify It
Stephen Zunes, CommonDreams, 8 September 2003
The Bush Administration's Top 40 Lies about War and Terrorism
Steve Perry, Minneapolis City Pages (in CommonDreams), 30 July 2003
The Bush Deceit
Peter D. Zimmerman, Washington Post, 14 July 2003
The Truth Meter
Suzanne Blanchard, PhillyBurbs.com, 7 August 2003
Impeachable offenses
Belva Ann Prycel, Lincoln County Weekly, 7 July 2003
Bush team united Iraq front unravels
Michael Moran, MSNBC, 11 July 2003
U.S. Gave Inaccurate Iraq Picture, Ex-Intel Official
Tabassum Zakaria, Reuters, 9 July 2003
Bush Misled US Into Iraq War--An Official Finding?
David Corn, The Nation, 26 June 2003
Expert Said to Tell Legislators He Was Pressed to Distort Some Evidence
James Risen and Douglas Jehl, New York Times, 25 June 2003
CIA deliberately misled UN arms inspectors, says senator
Rupert Cornwell, Independent UK, 18 June 2003
Exposed: Blair, Iraq and the great deception
Ben Russell, Independent UK, 18 June 2003
A mission in Iraq built on a lie
Robert Manne, Sydney Morning Herald, 16 June 2003
Norwegian Weapons Inspector: US Lied About Iraq's Weapons
Aftenposten (English translation), 19 May 2003
U.S. Said to Twist Its Data on Iraq
John J. Lumpkin, Associated Press (in Truthout), 8 June 2003
Spies threaten Blair with 'smoking gun' over Iraq
Kim Sengupta and Andy McSmith, Independent UK, 8 May 2003
Hussein Bunker, Bombed at Outset of War, Never Existed
CBS News (in Truthout), 28 May 2003
Marine commander says intelligence on Iraqi weapons was wrong
Greg Miller, Los Angeles Times (in the Detroit News), 31 May 2003
WMD Just a Convenient Excuse for War, Admits Wolfowitz
David Usborne, Independent UK (in Truthout), 30 May 2003
Bush Officials Change Tune on Iraqi Weapons
Alan Elsner, Reuters (in Truthout), 14 May 2003
Anthrax, chemicals and nerve gas: who is lying?
Andrew Gumbel, Independent UK, 20 April 2003
The uprising that wasn't, mythical chemical weapons and other items of 'breaking news'
Paul Peachey, Independent UK, 29 March 2003
Linking Saddam Hussein with Al Qaeda
Post-invasion Hussein letter warning of jihadists contradicts US claims of Iraqi - al Qaeda ties
James Risen, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 January 2004
Powell Admits No Hard Proof in Linking Iraq to Al Qaeda
Christopher Marquis, New York Times (in Truthout), 9 January 2004
Report: Iraqi Agent Denies Meeting with 9/11 Hijacker
Reuters (in Truthout), 14 December 2003
DoD Statement on News Reports of Al Qaeda and Iraq Connections
press release, Department of Defense, 15 November 2003
CIA Still Finds No Evidence Saddam Tried To Arm Terrorists: Report
Agence France-Presse (in Truthout), 17 November 2003
Defense Dept. memo allegedly proving a link between Al Qaeda and Saddam does nothing of the sort
Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball, Newsweek, 19 November 2003
Cheney ties Iraq bombings to al-Qaeda
Eric Schmitt, The Age, 12 November 2003
Iraq, 9/11 Still Linked By Cheney
Dana Priest and Glenn Kessler, Washington Post, 29 September 2003
Cheney link of Iraq, 9/11 challenged
Anne E. Kornblut and Bryan Bender, Boston Globe (in The Smirking Chimp), 16 September 2003
CIA had doubts on Iraq link to al-Qaida
Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian, 10 June 2003
Ambassador Joseph Wilson, the Niger Forgery, and Valerie Plame
The Serious Implications Of President Bush's Hiring A Personal Outside Counsel For The Valerie Plame Investigation
John W. Dean, FindLaw, 4 June 2004
Leak Prosecutor Seeks To Question Reporters
Susan Schmidt, Washington Post, 15 May 2004
Cheney staff accused of role in CIA leak
Mark Memmott, USA Today, 29 April 2004
Prosecutors Are Said to Have Expanded Inquiry Into Leak of C.I.A. Officer's Name
David Johnston and Richard W. Stevenson, New York Times, 2 April 2004
Karl Rove admits spreading story of Valerie Plame's CIA role
Murray S. Waas, American Prospect (in Truthout), 8 March 2004
Air Force One Phone Records Subpoenaed
Tom Brune, Newsday, 5 March 2004
Leaks Probe Is Gathering Momentum
Mike Allen and Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 26 December 2003
Naming of agent 'was aimed at discrediting CIA'
Edward Alden, Financial Times (in Truthout), 25 October 2003
Senior Federal Prosecutors and F.B.I. Officials Fault Ashcroft Over Leak Inquiry
David Johnston and Eric Lichtblau, New York Times, 16 October 2003
Outing Plame Is More Damaging than All Other American Scandals
Andrew M. Schocket, History News Network, 13 October 2003
Legal Aspects of the Plame Scandal
John W. DeanFindLaw, 10 October 2003
Bush Aides Will Review Leak Notes Before Turning Them Over to the FBI
David Jackson, Dallas Morning News (in Truthout), 7 October 2003
John Conyers Calls For Rove's Resignation Over Leak Accusations
letter (in Truthout), 7 October 2003
Of Lies and Leaks: Bush Threatened By New Revelations
David Corn, The Nation (in Truthout), 4 October 2003
More vicious than Tricky Dick
John W. Dean, Salon (in Truthout), 3 October 2003
Leak of Agent's Name Causes Exposure of CIA Front Firm
Walter Pincus and Mike Allen, Washington Post (in Truthout), 4 October 2003
Poll: 70% want independent probe of leak
Dana Milbank and Mike Allen, Washington Post (in Truthout), 2 October 2003
Leak of Agent's Name Causes Exposure of CIA Front Firm
Walter Pincus and Mike Allen, Washington Post (in Truthout), 4 October 2003
Bush Aide Accused of CIA Leak
Julian Borger, The Guardian (in Truthout), 1 October 2003
Leak Accusation Stirs White House
Greg Miller, Los Angeles Times (in Truthout), 30 September 2003
Bush Administration Is Focus of Inquiry into Leaking of CIA Agent's Identity
Mike Allen and Dana Priest, Washington Post (in Truthout), 28 September 2003
Bush officials who leaked name of US spy 'for revenge' could face jail
Andrew Buncombe, Independent UK, 29 September 2003
C.I.A. Seeks Inquiry Into Naming of an Operative
New York Times, 28 September 2003
White House Probed Over Leak of CIA Undercover Agent's Identity
CBS News, 28 September 2003
The Niger connection: what we know, what we don't know, and what we may never be told
Andrew Buncombe and Ben Russell, Independent UK, 10 July 2003
What I Didn't Find in Africa
Joseph C. Wilson 4th, New York Times (in Truthout), 6 July 2003
Lies About Administration Policies
Caught on film
Bush does photo ops in which he claims to support economic and social programs — then cuts the budget for those programs.
Words, Actions at Odds on Children's Health Care
Ceci Connolly, Washington Post, 25 September 2004
How the Bush Administration Used 9-11 to Advance Its Agenda
Prof. Marilyn Young, History News Network, 6 September 2004
State Dept. underreports worldwide terrorist attacks for political gain
Josh Meyer, Los Angeles Times (in the San Francisco Chronicle), 9 June 2004
2006 Cuts In Domestic Spending On Table
Jonathan Weisman, Washington Post, 27 May 2004
Official Says He Was Told To Withhold Medicare Data
Amy Goldstein, Washington Post, 13 March 2004
White House Removes Climate Change Data from Report by the E.P.A.
Andrew C. Revkin with Katharine Q. Seelye, New York Times, 19 June 2003
Lies, Damned Lies, and Bush's Tax-Cut Statistics
David E. Rosenbaum, New York Times, 25 February 2003
GAO Report Contradicts Bush Claim that Environmental Laws Hamper Military
Associated Press (in Truthout), 10 July 2002
George W's bloody folly
Jonathan Freedland, The Guardian, 26 June 2002
You’re Shocked W Flip-Flopped on Free Trade?
P.M. Carpenter, History News Network, 11 March 2002
Democrats: Bush broke prescription promise
CNN, 2 March 2002
Democrats: Bush's Education Budget Is Less Than Promised
Robert Pear, New York Times, 13 February 2002
Bush quotes Dorothy Day to support his plans that she would have opposed
Joan Walsh, Salon, 22 May 2001
Letter from Dorothy Day's daughter and granddaughter, condemning Bush's distortion of her message and mission
Worldwide terrorism-related deaths on the rise
Robert Rivas and Robert Windrem, MSNBC, 2 September 2004
Lies from the BushCheney04 Campaign
Lies, Damned Lies, and Convention Speeches
Fred Kaplan, Slate, 2 September 2004
GOP Prism Distorts Some Kerry Positions
Glenn Kessler and Dan Morgan, Washington Post, 3 September 2004
Bush's dubious terror alerts
Bill Berkowitz, Working for Change, 19 August 2004
Bush praises American Indian housing program but plans deep cuts
Associated Press (in the Billings Gazette, 13 August 2004
July Surprise
John B. Judis, Spencer Ackerman & Massoud Ansari, New Republic (in Truthout), 8 July 2004
Bush Campaign Rhetoric Makes Hay Out of Straw Men
Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 1 June 2004
White House Is Trumpeting Programs It Tried to Cut
Robert Pear, New York Times, 19 May 2004
If Bush wants to compare flip-flops with Kerry—Bring it on!
Mick Youther, Intervention, 25 March 2004
President Bush applies the Powell Doctrine to running for re-election
Michael Kinsley, Slate, 23 March 2004
Bush Campaign Photo-Op Crowd Didn't Speak English
Paul Vitello, Newsday (in Truthout), 12 March 2004
Bush Misrepresents Kerry's Record on Intelligence Budget
Walter Pincus and Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 12 March 2004
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