935 lies spewed from the White House in connection with Iraq, according to a report today by AFP.

US President George W. Bush and his top officials ran roughshod over the truth in the run-up to the Iraq war lying a total of 935 times, a study released Wednesday found. Bush and his then secretary of state Colin Powell made the most false statements as they sought to drum up support for the March 2003 invasion to topple Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, the study alleged. In a damning report, the Center for Public Integrity found “935 false statements by eight top administration officials that mentioned Iraq’s possession of weapons of mass destruction, or links to Al-Qaeda, on at least 532 separate occasions.” “Bush and seven of his administration’s top officials methodically propagated erroneous information over the two years beginning on September 11, 2001,” the center said. “These false statements dramatically increased in August 2002, just prior to congressional consideration of a war resolution and during the critical weeks in early 2003 when the president delivered his State of the Union address and Powell delivered his memorable presentation to the UN Security Council,” the CPI added.

If you’re surprised, raise your hand.  This is just par for the course in an Administration based on doing what it wished in spite of any truth to the contrary.  It is the political equivalent of ‘biblical archaeology’ in that both know what they want to find and will do whatever necessary to find it.

Source: http://drjimwest.wordpress.com/2008/01/23/935-lies/