The Free Speech Zone

O'Reilly denied calling the pope "senile" -- but he did
In response to a caller on his radio show, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly falsely claimed that he "never said the pope was senile." In fact, in 2002, O'Reilly called Pope John Paul II "too senile to know" about the damage Cardinal Bernard Law, former archbishop of the Boston Archdiocese, had caused by allegedly covering up incidents of sexual abuse of children by priests in the archdiocese.

Videos Challenge Accounts of Convention Unrest
Dennis Kyne put up such a fight at a political protest last summer, the arresting officer recalled, it took four police officers to haul him down the steps of the New York Public Library and across Fifth Avenue. "We picked him up and we carried him while he squirmed and screamed," the officer, Matthew Wohl, testified in December. "I had one of his legs because he was kicking and refusing to walk on his own." [...] A videotape shot by a documentary filmmaker showed Mr. Kyne agitated but plainly walking under his own power down the library steps, contradicting the vivid account of Officer Wohl, who was nowhere to be seen in the pictures. [... ... there were two versions of the same police tape: the one that was to be used as evidence in his trial had been edited at two spots, removing images that showed Mr. Dunlop behaving peacefully. When a volunteer film archivist found a more complete version of the tape and gave it to Mr. Dunlop's lawyer, prosecutors immediately dropped the charges and said that a technician had cut the material by mistake.

Under Bush, a New Age of Prepackaged TV News
... In all, at least 20 federal agencies, including the Defense Department and the Census Bureau, have made and distributed hundreds of television news segments in the past four years, records and interviews show. Many were subsequently broadcast on local stations across the country without any acknowledgement of the government's role in their production.

"I said on my program, if, if the Americans go in and overthrow Saddam Hussein and it's clean, he has nothing, I will apologize to the nation, and I will not trust the Bush administration again."

- Bill O'Reilly, on ABC's Good Morning America, 03-18-03

So there were no WMD. Here is a great list of everything the key players said leading up to the war that we now know is a lie. Spread this around!

Cheney Lied: “Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.”
—Speech at VFW 103rd Natl. Convention, Aug. 26, 2002
(There were numerous doubts. Cheney repeatedly visited the CIA in secret to ensure they gave him intelligence to justify invading Iraq.)

Powel lied: “On the left is a close-up of one of the four chemical bunkers. The two arrows indicate the presence of sure signs that the bunkers are storing chemical munitions.”
—Remarks to the United Nations, Feb. 5, 2003
(No chemical munitions were found there or anywhere else.)

Rumsfeld lied: “We know that he has an active program for the development of nuclear weapons.”
—Interview with Infinity-CBS Radio, Nov. 14, 2002
(They knew nothing of the kind.)

Rice lied: “In retrospect, knowing that some of the documents… were, indeed, forgeries…had we known that at the time, we would not have put it in. And had there been even a peep that…the director of Central Intelligence did not want it in, it would have been gone.”
—Face the Nation, CBS, July 13, 2003
(The director of Central Intelligence had written Ms. Rice in October 2002 that the claim was in doubt and the document they touted as evidence was a forgery. CIA Director Tenet also called Ms. Rice’s deputy to warn against using the claim. They used it anyway to bolster their case for a war.)

Bush lied: “The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”
—State of the Union Address to Congress, Jan. 28, 2003
(Bush had been told the Niger uranium claim was false and based on a forged document, but needed to justify invading Iraq. Our government purposely misled the British government.)

Lying to congress is a felony. Starting a war based on false pretenses against a country that didn’t attack us is even worse. Hundreds of our soldiers are dead as a result of this deliberate campaign of misinformation

"If we had known an attack was coming against the United States...we would have moved heaven and earth to stop it."
- George W. Bush

President Bush recieved 36 PDB's that related to Bin Ladin or al Qaeda, in the months before the September 11th attacks.

SEPT 12, 2002 - Remarks by George bush at the United Nations General Assembly
"Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons."
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SEPT 12, 2002 - Speech to UN General Assembly by George Bush
"Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent."
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SEPT, 2002 - Statement by President George W. Bush
"The war on terror, you can't distinguish between al Qaeda and Saddam when you talk about the war on terror," he said. "They're both equally as bad, and equally as evil, and equally as destructive."
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OCT 2, 2002 - Statement by President George W. Bush
"On its present course, the Iraqi regime is a threat of unique urgency. . . . it has developed weapons of mass death."
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OCT 7, 2002 - Statement by President George W. Bush
"The Iraqi regime . . . is seeking nuclear weapons."
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OCT 7, 2002 - Statement by President George W. Bush
"Knowing these realities, America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof - the smoking gun - that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud."
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OCT 28, 2002 - Remarks by the President at New Mexico Welcome
"This is a person who has had contacts with al Qaeda."
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OCT 28, 2002 - Remarks by the President in Colorado Welcome
"He's got connections with al Qaeda."
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OCT 31, 2002 - Remarks by the President at South Dakota Welcome
"This is a guy who has had connections with these shadowy terrorist networks."
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NOV 04, 2002 - Remarks by the President in Texas Welcome
"This is a man who has got connections with al Qaeda."
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JAN 28, 2003 - State of the Union
"The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa"
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JAN 28, 2003 - State of the Union Address
"We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons -- the very weapons the dictator tells us he does not have."
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FEB 8, 2003 - Radio Address
"Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised."
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MAY 29. 2003 - Statement by President George W. Bush
"We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories. You remember when Colin Powell stood up in front of the world, and he said, Iraq has got laboratories, mobile labs to build biological weapons. They're illegal. They're against the United Nations resolutions, and we've so far discovered two. And we'll find more weapons as time goes on. But for those who say we haven't found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they're wrong, we found them."
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JUNE 5, 2003 - Statement by President George W. Bush
"We recently found two mobile biological weapons facilities which were capable of producing biological agents."
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JUNE 6, 2003 - Statement by President George W. Bush
"Here's what -- we've discovered a weapons system, biological labs, that Iraq denied she had, and labs that were prohibited under the U.N. resolutions."
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