Bush: "I want the facts" on Iraqi weapons

[Flagg]

WASHINGTON (AFP) - US President George W. Bush (news - web sites) said that he wants "the facts" about Iraqi arms but declined to lend his voice to a growing chorus calling for an independent probe into incorrect pre-war claims.


AFP Photo

"I want the facts," the president, who built his case for invading Iraq (news - web sites) on charges Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) had chemical and biological weapons, said during a brief public appearance with economists who support his policies.


In what could prove a major election-year headache for Bush, former chief US weapons hunter David Kay said his Iraq Survey Group found no evidence of banned stockpiles in Iraq and that they probably did not exist on the eve of the war.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20040130/pl_afp/us_iraq_bush&cid=1521&ncid=1473

[truthisfreedom]

1. i want! i want!

little kid in white house has tantrum.

[gWbush is Mabus]

5. I WANT A CHEESBURGER!

[saigon68]

25. FACT--THERE ARE NO "WEAPONS" YOU CHIMP MORON

He couldn't find his ass with both hands

[alittlelark]

41. I could find his ass with

my boot.:evilgrin:

[saigon68]

43. LOL

Good one

[LiberalFighter]

61. Since you are female...

I hope you use the heel if they are spike. :kick:

[LiberalFighter]

60. I hope THAT is where those WMD are found!!!

Then he can shove his head up there to see them.

[loudnclear]

48. I thought he had the facts on Iraq? That's why he invaded, isn't it?

He only wants info that will exonerate him and his cabal.

[October]

55. Perfectly stated

[Just Me]

52. "I want facts",...ahem, that mislead the people about the truth,...

Everything that comes out of this man's mouth seems the exact opposite of his motivations (are definitely the opposite of his actions). But, you know, maybe he is like totally an empty shell and, who knows, could be the man has an addiction problem with focus groups. :D Let's get the pharmaceutical companies on this, right away!!!!

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

2. I'm glad he's not calling for an independent probe

Any independent probe he would call for would not be independent :D

[LiberalFighter]

65. Just like his 2002 Economic Summit in Waco

or his President's Commission to Strengthen Social Security that was rigged with members all bias towards destroying Social Security

[wysimdnwyg]

3. <cough>

BULLSHIT!</cough>

[priller]

4. I heard him say this on the radio

He didn't sound too convincing. It wasn't his resolute, stand-firm tone of voice. It was more like, "eh, whatever".

[truthspeaker]

6. you should have demanded the facts two years ago, dumbass

Instead of demanding the intel services back up your lies.

[Whoa_Nelly]

14. Excactly, truthspeaker!

The Chimp played out the game to get what the BFEE and PNAC wanted.

I hope everyday that these people will be found guilty of criminal acts. I wish everyday that a serious investigation into the current administration takes hold and proceeds to legitimately impeach the illegitimate pResident.

[daleo]

7. I want the facts

As long as they are the facts I want.

[skypilot]

8. He wants the facts??

Uh huh, but what's he going to do with them if he gets them?

You want the facts? You can't HANDLE the facts!!!!

9. His statement implies we haven't had the facts yet

hmmm:evilgrin: :wtf:

[Terran]

10. Joke of the day.

Bush wants the whats? That's hysterical!

This is nothing more than pandering to the idea that Poor Wittle Chimpy was miswed by the Big Bad CIA. Him didn't weawy want that big nasty war, noooooo not him!

Sorry dipshit, it's too late for that, thanks to Paul O'Neill. An investigation is coming, just in time for November.

[burythehatchet]

11. BREAKING: President Bush wants The Facts

Here you are President Bush: The facts are that you are a criminal. You are a lying, cheating, murdering, drug taking, hypocritical, lazy, ignorant, mean, ugly, disrespectful, self absorbed, son of another president who stole an election just like you did.

Are those enough facts or would you like some more.

I want The Facts, indeed.

[calimary]

68. You forgot petty, arrogant, and greedy. Other than that, you pegged it.

Yeah, SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURE he wants the facts. He wants the facts on how soon this can be whitewashed and swept under the rug so he can go to another fundraiser straight away.

[bushisanidiot]

12. Little Late To Be Asking for Facts NOW President DUMBASS!!!!!!

impeachment... NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[shanti]

20. thank you!!!

too late is right!

[bluedog]

13. the LIAR spaeks again..

Why didn't get the facts before we freaking invaded Iraq, killing over 10,000 Iraqis and 500+ American soldiers?

Why didn't get the facts before he committed America to spending hundreds of billions on this little project?

Why block the investigations if he has nothing to hide???Where the Papers Sadamm gave to the UN reguarding the weapons report???What was ripped out of that report...What is this bunch of SOBS hiding????

He's the worst president America has ever had. Ii admmit...I totally hate this man...

[BigBigBear]

15. Did someone put us in a Joseph Heller novel

and not tell us?

[Melinda]

16. Facts? I got your "facts" right here - The "Office of Special Plans"

In the days after September 11, Mr Rumsfeld and his deputy, Paul Wolfowitz, mounted an attempt to include Iraq in the war against terror. When the established agencies came up with nothing concrete to link Iraq and al-Qaida, the OSP was given the task of looking more carefully.

-snip-

The OSP had access to a huge amount of raw intelligence. It came in part from "report officers" in the CIA's directorate of operations whose job is to sift through reports from agents around the world, filtering out the unsubstantiated and the incredible. Under pressure from the hawks such as Mr Cheney and Mr Gingrich, those officers became reluctant to discard anything, no matter how far-fetched. The OSP also sucked in countless tips from the Iraqi National Congress and other opposition groups, which were viewed with far more scepticism by the CIA and the state department.

There was a mountain of documentation to look through and not much time. The administration wanted to use the momentum gained in Afghanistan to deal with Iraq once and for all. The OSP itself had less than 10 full-time staff, so to help deal with the load, the office hired scores of temporary "consultants". They included lawyers, congressional staffers, and policy wonks from the numerous rightwing thinktanks in Washington. Few had experience in intelligence.

-snip-

"They surveyed data and picked out what they liked," said Gregory Thielmann, a senior official in the state department's intelligence bureau until his retirement in September. "The whole thing was bizarre. The secretary of defence had this huge defence intelligence agency, and he went around it."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,999737,00.html

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More fun "facts":

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=office+of+special+plans

[Gin]

17. This is an Onion headlines isn't it? Come on....he wants the facts...

I want a probe.. and I'm thinking about it's use right now.

[Zhade]

18. He had the facts and he lied about them all.

FUCK THE TRAITOR - IMPEACHMENT AND IMPRISONMENT NOW!

[Malva Zebrina]

19. He doesn't want the facts on who leaked the Valerie Plame CIA connection

but he want the facts on---on--on what the hell does he want the facts on? He knew what the facts were--they were the ones he said they were, and he was hell bent upon making the conclusion fit his greedy premise no matter what the real facts were. Now he is trying to pretend he did not know the facts? Oh the humanity!

He wants the "facts"-?????? Now???? He wants the facts now?????? He is a despicable, coward of a man pretending he operated on non facts while all the while knowing he was pulling the wool over the eyes of his own people. May he never have a good night's sleep for the rest of his pathetic puny , little entitled life. He is pathetic. Abosolutely a pathetic little, knickers wearing, foot stamping, lying, pathetic murderer of thousands of innocent children, babies, preganant women and old people.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

21. Him and his Administration tools said the had the facts

over and over again!

[DoYouEverWonder]

24. I'd like to see all the Intel they supposedly had

that they couldn't show anybody because it was so sensitive.

Well now that their mission, removing Saddam from power, has been completed, there really is no need to keep anything about Iraq secret? Just like in poker, it's time for them to show their hand. They said they had all the aces. Then lay em down. Oh, they bluffed? It's time for these scam artists to be removed from the game.

[saigon68]

27. Love that pic above

It looks like a CHIMPANZEE who has his parachute harness leg straps on, too tight, is going to visit the TELE-TUBBIES !!!

[stevedeshazer]

35. I can't stop laughing

This reminds me of:

[Cooley Hurd]

47. Yeah yeah... a chimp in a flight suit...

It's been done before...

[Just Me]

53. You all are CRACKING ME UP!!!!

OHHHHH, my belly hurts so good!!! Oh, gawd!!! Thank you. Thank you thank you thank you!!! No wonder I love this board :D

[Bandit]

45. But now he wants the "Real Facts"

How much of an admission is this anyway? :shrug: the guy is truly clueless.

[freeminder]

58. I want the FACTS ! Read aloud to me while I doze in my comfy chair and

get briefed by people who read... newspapers and...intel briefs or sumthin... *hmmm are those some kind of underwear...*

Where are the Factgetters ?

[The_Casual_Observer]

22. More games from the bastard-in-chief

It's time for, "I want the facts". Except that he won't allow the UN inspectors in Iraq, sent in Kay, a known advocate for the invasion, and is "sidestepping" a call for an investigation.

Sure he wants the facts, but ONLY if they could vindicate him and help him win the election. The shallowness and transparency of bush & co never ceases to amaze me

[The Stranger]

23. What are facts to a pathological liar?

He said there were 500 tons of Sarin, 38,0000 liters of Anthrax, 20-somthing thousands liters of VX. Don't forget about the nuclear weapons and aluminum tubes.

He said this in the State of the Union and all of it was lies.

[WildClarySage]

26. You want the facts, dumb-

ass? Well, I want 500 american soldiers and thousands of Iraqis to still be alive. They aren't and it's your fault, you bloodspilling, warmongering liar. You had the facts and distorted them and made up new ones and as a result, people died. You lying sack of shit.

[dicknbush]

28. You want the Facts??????? Disgusting

Walk over to Cheney Chimps office and I am sure he will have some information for you starting with the Chalabi kabal and the lying sack of crap Wolfowitz, Perle etc. The CIA got it right you just didn't like the conclusions they came to and told them to go back and make it up.

[demgrrrll]

32. He can't handle the facts. Or the truth. Another round of breathtaking

hypocrisy. One wave after another. Hurry up November,
Ill help you pack, Georgie boy.

[0007]

29. Bush refuses to call inquiry into WMD ( he wants facts?)

President George Bush has declined to endorse calls for an independent inquiry into intelligence failures regarding Saddam Hussein's alleged cache of WMDs.

snip...

"I want the American people to know that I, too, want to know the facts. I want to be able to compare what the Iraq Survey Group has found with what we thought prior to going into Iraq.

More.....

http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/1F4E2A5A-C1A9-4F12-BEA3-8AD948C17205.htm

[underpants]

30. FACT:You lied us into an illegal war FACT:Over 500 Americans dead

FACT: Over 2,000 injured
FACT: Untold thousands of Iraqis dead
FACT: You and your cronies knew damned well what you were doing.

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

62. close to 20,000 wounded not 2,000 wounded!

according to Bernie Ward
and some of the casualties are missing limbs, and crippling injuries etc.,

[young_at_heart]

31. Who's kidding who? He DOESN'T want the facts!

What does it take to get people to pay attention?

[eablair3]

51. absolutely correct ... Bush declines an independent inquiry

if he wanted to know the "facts", then why is he opposing the calls for an independent commission to find out those facts?

what he wants is to make it appear that he is concerned over this, and then sweep it under the table in a whitewash or coverup. Just like 9-11.

What Bush says, and what Bush really wants and does ... are two totally different things.

Accountablility. The buck stops with Bush. He's responsible for killing thousands in attacking and invading another country without the facts.

Sounds like a war crime to me.

[Fleshdancer]

33. Um...you're suppose to say this BEFORE invading another country.

idiot.

[TEXASYANKEE]

34. Bwahahahahahah!

I'm sorry but .... BWAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[otohara]

36. Another LIE

Those meetings are so boring, fuck it, let's take him out.

[hatrack]

37. Just like he wants the facts about Harken to come out

And in the same way in which he wants the facts about his TANG service to come out.

And in the same way in which he wants the facts about the Texas Rangers stadium deal to come out.

Just cut the BS, Chimpy - no one cares, no one believes.

[KansDem]

38. So do we, Smirk. So do we...(eom)

[ixion]

39. shouldn't the facts have come BEFORE the invasion?

This is pathetic. BushCo has trashed US integrity worldwide, and the media just nod and smile.

*sigh*

[llmart]

40. Anyone see Scott Ritter on

Washington Journal on CSpan this AM? This guy gave * the facts over and over again and he was criticized and his point of view vanished from the airwaves. I loved it when Ritter said that he voted for Bush last time but he will do everything in his power to see him out of Washington in November.

[Just Me]

54. I listened to the moron editor mischaracterize what Ritter said,...

,...the one from (oh, boy, hope I don't get the wrong paper here) Washington Post (*wince* I am having a brain fart, sorry). I also listened to one caller pin that editor to the wall, leaving him so flushed that all he could do was say something really, really stupidly mundane yet mean. I could not help having cheery feeling when I witnessed another arrogant bullying creep bite the dust.

[thinkingwoman]

42. the chimp in chief

needs to check his pants. Methinks they are on fire...again.

[CO Liberal]

44. Hey, Bush: YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE FACTS!!!!!

:-)

[Snappy]

46. The facts.

Just the facts. Do you swear to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Yeah, I would like to witness someone making that statement to that entire pack of Neo Fascists at a trial.

[GovtMule]

49. As if they didn't lean on the CIA for worst case scenarios

I'm waiting for Tenet or some brave, principled CIA person to explode and come clean about Rummy's four man team and Cheney's strong arm tactics in skewing this intel to meet their needs.

But let's say for a moment that it really is the CIA's fault. Tell your right wing friends that you can't give Daddy's boy kudos for defeating Iraq and finding Saddam and make excuses for this situation.

Dubya didn't defeat nor find Saddam. His (ahem, some would say Clinton's) military did it. If you prop him up for that, then one must blame his CIA for the intel failures of 9/11, the bunk al-Qaeda links, and the vast stockpiles of WMD we haven't found.

[Dr Fate]

50. The "communist" war protesters had "the facts" last year, dumbass...

...

[freeminder]

56. stunned here

this morning in our news (belgium) : Condoleeza Rice saying "we may have been misled by faulty intelligence".


:wtf: :mad: I yelled "what do you mean misled ??? As in misled by your own doctored (OSP) intelligence ???" to my surprised colleagues at work. They all agree Bush has misled the US public but they don't see the scheme of things.

OMG this can't be happening. I have to take this the Onion way or I go crazy. When it was just Rice, OK. Another balloon to float. But now Bush ?

Looking to see if US national media has this too...

[Zero Gravitas]

57. Give up Bush, no one believes you anymore

Please how stupid do they think we are. They "knew" that Saddam had all these weapons, if they really "knew" it they'd have several independent confirmations. Of course they didn't have that, so even if some intelligence was "bad" they're still liars.

Why then did they make up shit like the yellow cake and Saddam being in cahoots with Al Qaeda?

If they were so sure of genuine intelligence why did they set up the Office For Special Plans to funnel selected intelligence to von Rumsfeld and the White House? Maybe thats where all the bad intelligence came from, you know, from the office you set up to give you bad intelligence so you had an excuse to invade Iraq. Asshole.

[snippy]

59. The facts: Over 8,000 dead Iraqis and over 600 dead coalition troops.

http://www.iraqbodycount.net/

http://lunaville.org/warcasualties/Summary.aspx

And now Bush wants the facts?

[DoYouEverWonder]

63. That's why pre-emptive war

is not a good idea.

[george_w_snatch]

64. well said

[Lorien]

66. Uh-huh, like he wanted the facts about the traitor

who outed Valerie Plame? Or the facts about 9-11?

More Orwellian speak from Drinky McDumbass!

[pinto]

67. he got the fax, he just didn't read it............................n/t

[peterh]

69. What are Facts….to a disengaged POS…

….with strings attached….hint…they can be more lethal than a pretzel…

[slack]

70. It' really incredible

You got my full compassion for this president. This man is such a calamity, I think the whole world will thank you if America elect a Democrat in 2004. (And don't let the election be stolen again)
Greeting from Germany :)

[0007]

71. Facts, 'eh?

http://www.angelfire.com/creep/gwbush/remindus.html

[moondust]

72. He's a year too late in asking for the facts.

Anybody with half a brain would have asked this question long before launching any kind of an invasion on anybody, both to justify the invasion and to protect your troops going in.

[The_Casual_Observer]

76. Anybody with half a brain

This is central to the debate

[george_w_snatch]

73. the South is full of fuckin' 'tards, doo dah, doo dah

[Jack Rabbit]

74. Yeah, right

He wants the facts on WMDs as badly as he wants to know who outed Valerie Plame.

[WillParkinson]

75. "I WANT THE FACTS".....

Never mind that I didn't really care what they were BEFORE I illegaly invaded another country.

[bvar22]

77. Dear bush*:

Please see the following people for the TRUE FACTS:

Robert Byrd

Paul Wellstone (RIP)

Hans Blix

Scott Ritter

Dennis Kucinich

Rev. Al Sharpton

Charles Rangel

Ralph Nader

Mike Malloy

Peter Werbe

Michael Moore

Anyone at UNSCOM

Anyone on the UN Security Council except England

Russia

France

Germany

All of the above were able to use their intelligence to determine that Saddam was NOT a threat to anyone. You should start using your intelligence.

BTW: You owe a humble knee bended apology to all of the above,

PLUS the families of the over 500 American servicemen that your poor intelligence needlessly killed in Iraq,

PLUS the families and friends of the thousands of American servicemen that your poor intelligence maimed and wounded in Iraq,

PLUS the families and friends of the tens of thousands of Iraqis your poor intelligence needlessly killed in Iraq,

PLUS, the millions of Americans you ridiculed who were intelligent enough to determine on our own that Saddam was not a threat to the USA.

We were RIGHT; you were WRONG!!!! You got some splainin to do!

PS: I remember during your campaign for president, someone in Texas said they weren't gonna vote for you because you had very poor intelligence. I'm glad to see you have finally admitted it! Admitting that you are lacking in intelligence is the first step for recovery.

[BattyDem]

78. Why now?

You didn't want them BEFORE the war! :mad:

[Catherine Vincent]

79. I give up.

Bush and his cronies will get off, yet again, on this wmd atrocity. Everything is being set for the CIA to get the blame. I guess that's the privilege of having your party as the majority in all three branches of government. You can commit as many crimes as you please while your party sit back and not question anything.

The republican party is corrupt to the core and whomever vote for these thugs should hang their head in shame.