Video Clips of Iraq Invasion Lies: Beyond Cheney/Bush -- From Biden to Powell to Pelosi
There were not just so many lies about Iraq, but there are lies about the lies.
The lies actually swallowed the culture.
There’s the laughable lie that it was all an innocent mistake, bad intel. Or the US establishment got hoodwinked by a couple of Iraqis.
There’s the lie that it was a failure, when in cold, Machiavellian terms, it was a success, as Katharine Gun noted in my interview with her yesterday.
There’s the lie that we found out Bush was lying after the war. I remember lots of Soros-funded groups pushed this after the invasion. A total lie, it was clear Bush and co were lying before the invasion. I put out a series of news releases at the time: "White House Claims: A Pattern of Deceit" and "Bush’s War Case: Fiction vs. Facts at Accuracy.org/bush" and "U.S. Credibility Problems" and "Tough Questions for Bush on Iraq Tonight."
There’s the lie that Bush and Cheney started the lies. No, they go back at least to the Clinton administration, and arguably to the now “respectable” first Bush administration, see my piece on Albright.
Biden presided over rigged hearings on Iraq but he recently claimed when talking about the Russian invasion of Ukraine: "The idea that over 100,000 forces would invade another country — since World War II, nothing like that has happened."
Indeed, Biden is a large reason for how the lies swallowed the culture and it’s a damning indictment of the society that he would be elected president:
Perhaps Biden's biggest lie was from April, 2007. He claimed on "Meet the Press" about Saddam Hussein's alleged WMDs: "The real mystery is, if he, if he didn't have any of them left, why didn't he say so?" Of course, Hussein did say exactly that, and his claims were derided and dismissed by Biden and his ilk. Biden’s lies interestingly closely paralleled John Kerry’s and much of the establishment media. I tried to question Biden in January 2007, he dismissed criticism of his rigged hearings and now-Secretary of State Tony Blinken ran interference, absurdly claiming “every hard question was answered” at Biden’s hearings.
In a July 2019 presidential debate Biden claimed: "From the moment 'shock and awe' started, from that moment, I was opposed to the effort, and I was outspoken as much as anyone at all in the Congress." In fact —
And there were others of course —
Powell, like McCain, would make a great show of being allegedly against torture, but he actually used false confessions gotten from torture at his infamous presentation at the UN — and refused to acknowledge it years later when I questioned him:
Pelosi played a notable role, like other “liberals” that nominally voted against authorizing the invasion, but pushing the lies to propel it — and then ensuring Bush was never held to account, ensuring the system continued:
Thank you for reminding all of us of the establishment's record of deceit.
Outstanding and incredible journalism work that you've done now for over 20 years! Like the scientists at their last meal in "Don't Look Up," you and just a few others can at least tell each other that you tried. That's all anyone can do as the "deranged idiots in Washington" are now sending us "smashing into the concrete wall of reality." (quotes from Leake and Dr. McCullough's Substack): https://www.facebook.com/coleen.rowley/posts/pfbid02TaWZPMmX2MSnjGByexBQsGrHGHctmrhR7QBasG7UENLQ8hTaios4L4ocVMxVJBwml And yet the Powers-That-Shouldn't-Be tell us "don't look up."