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Proof Bush Fixed The Facts
... Actually, politicization is far too mild a word for what happened. The intelligence was not simply mistaken; it was manufactured, with the president of the United States awarding foreman George Tenet the Medal of Freedom for his role in helping supervise the deceit. The British documents make clear that this was not a mere case of "leaning forward" in analyzing the intelligence, but rather mass deceptionâ;;an order of magnitude more serious. No other conclusion is now possible....
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/proof_bush_fix...

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  Study: Bush, other officials issued hundreds of false statements before Iraq invasion
  WASHINGTON: 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.
  The study concluded that the statements "were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses."
  The study was posted Tuesday on the Web site of the Center for Public Integrity, which worked with the Fund for Independence in Journalism....
  http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/01/23/ameri...
  
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