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How many times did White House officials make false claims in the build-up to invading Iraq?

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Tuesday, 22 January 2008

At least... (drum roll)... 935.

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.

Let's take a second and really grasp that number. They didn't do it once. They didn't do it twice. Bush and his people said false things that started a war at least

935

times.

So now, after almost half a trillion dollars down the hole...

and somewhere between at least 80,000 and quite possibly up to 1,220,580 violent deaths later...

... with no end remotely in sight, and still Bush gunning for a new war, despite his own administration's comprehensive National Intelligence Estimate...

... I find I must confess that after several minutes of thinking, I have no bloody clue how to end this post on an optimistic, inspiring, or remotely useful note. But there it is.

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