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WASHINGTON,
D.C. – U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) issued today’s “Bush Administration’s
Misstatement of the Day” following a statement by Vice President Dick Cheney
as reported in the Washington Post (12/17/03):
(Vice
President Dick) Cheney also criticized what he considers a proliferation
of "cheap shot journalism" about the administration. "People
don't check the facts," he said.
Schakowsky
said, “It is clear that President Bush, Vice President Cheney and members
of the Administration refused, ignored or simply did not want to ‘check’
critical facts about the false claims they made about Iraq’s weapons of
mass destruction.”
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“We
know where the [WMD] are.” – Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, (ABC
“This Week with George Stephanopoulos,” 3/30/03)
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“We
believe Saddam has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.” – Vice
President Cheney (NBC “Meet the Press,” 3/16/03)
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“There
can be no doubt that Saddam Hussein has biological weapons and the capability
to rapidly produce more, many more…Our conservative estimate is that Iraq
today has a stockpile of between 100 and 500 tons of chemical weapons agent.
That is enough agent to fill 16,000 battlefield rockets.” – Secretary
of State Colin Powell (Address before UN Security Council, 2/5/03)
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“Our
intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to
produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent.”
– President Bush (State of the Union Address, 1/28/03)
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“Simply
stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.
There is no doubt that he is amassing them to use against our friends,
against our allies, and against us.” –Vice President Cheney (Speech
to VFW 103rd National Convention, 8/26/02)
Read
the following Misstatements of the Day relating to pre-war intelligence
claims by the Bush Administration:
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