Liberal in the Land of Conservative: Bob Olson Reponds To 935 Lies

Bob Olson Reponds To 935 Lies

11:18 PM | Posted in 6th District Election, Bob Olson, George W. Bush

A new study out finds that there were upwards of 935 "false statements" (here in the world of reality we tend to call those LIES!) were told by this administration.

Study: False statements preceded war

By DOUGLASS K. DANIEL
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.
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Named in the study along with Bush were top officials of the administration during the period studied: Vice President Dick Cheney, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz and White House press secretaries Ari Fleischer and Scott McClellan.

Bush led with 259 false statements, 231 about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and 28 about Iraq's links to al-Qaida, the study found. That was second only to Powell's 244 false statements about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and 10 about Iraq and al-Qaida.

Bob Olson put out a press release responding to this lack of honesty and even took his own party to task for not having the guts to stand up and demand real evidence before allowing this administration to rush us into a war.

Olson: Congress Should Have Confronted Bush on 'Cycle of Lies'

For Immediate Release
Contact: Christopher Truscott
612.423.2582
chris@bobolson.org
ANOKA—Bob Olson, a DFL candidate in the 6^th Congressional District, released the following statement in response to a report that the Bush administration made at least 935 inaccurate statements about Iraq in the two years following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

"Because too many politicians were unwilling to stand up to this administration and its endless cycle of lies, we've lost 3,931 troops and hundreds of billions of dollars in a war we never should have started.

"I am the only candidate of either party in the 6^th District race who opposed this war from the very beginning. To go after Saddam Hussein and Iraq after 9/11 made as much sense to me as attacking India after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. This war has been a wasteful distraction in the real war on terrorism.

"As your congressman, I will never cave in the face of unnecessary warmongering by any president, regardless of his or her party. If political courage costs me an election, that's fine. At least I'll be able to sleep at night."