Pajamas Media: Study on Bush’s Iraq Deception and Lies: Full of Deception and Lies

The Associated Press, the New York Times, Reuters, and other news organizations — not to mention political bloggers from both the left and right —were buzzing Wednesday morning over an online report issued by The Center for Public Integrity (CPI) and a related organization, The Fund for Independence in Journalism (FIJ).

The report, entitled Iraq: The War Card—Orchestrated Deception on the Path to War, claims that President Bush and top administration officials were complicit in issuing hundreds of false statements regarding the threat posed by Saddam Hussein’s Iraq after the 9/11/2001 terror attacks in a run-up to the invasion of Iraq in March of 2003.

As simply as I can put it: This study is bullshit.

The methodology makes it clear: Its definitions of “false statement” is entirely based on hindsight (and much of that debatable as well).

How the methodology works: If, in 2001, you believed that Saddam was communing with Satan, based on the information you had, and then said, “Saddam communes with Satan,” and then, six years later, you learned that Saddam did not, in fact, commune with Satan then, according to the way this study is constructing, your first statements were lies.

Of course, what would you expect of a “study” funded by anti-American black propagandist George Soros and his pals?

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