Bush/Cheney did not lie to congress. The investigation led by democrats, found that they had not lied. You are the one lying now.
Everyone knows they lied. That you are still hanging on to the lie just shows how out of touch you really are. The one that turned out to be worthless was Bush himself....no wonder he's considered one of the worst US Presidents.
On Sept. 18, 2002, CIA director George Tenet briefed President Bush in the Oval Office on top-secret intelligence that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction, according to two former senior CIA officers. Bush dismissed as worthless this information from the Iraqi foreign minister, a member of Saddam’s inner circle, although it turned out to be accurate in every detail. Tenet never brought it up again.
Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction - Salon.com
Which proves nothing. First, this is according to Salon. When you compare that to other sources of information.....
CNN.com - Woodward Tenet told Bush WMD case a slam dunk - Apr 19 2004
Clearly one of the two accounts must be lying.
About two weeks before deciding to invade Iraq, President Bush was told by CIA Director George Tenet there was a "slam dunk case" that dictator Saddam Hussein had unconventional weapons, according to a new book by Washington Post journalist Bob Woodward.
So which is it? Why are your sources correct, while other sources are lying?
National Intelligence Estimate of October 2002, based on the information they had at the time, clearly showed they did.
Moreover, the "Report on the US Intelligence community's prewar intelligence assessment on Iraq", completed July 7th 2004, led by John Rockefeller, said conclusively that the claims made were in fact supported by the information at the time.
If Bush lied, then everyone, including all the Democrats lied. You had your chance to prove he lied, and you failed. Total fail.
So with all due respect, you can keep your biased left-wing conspiracy web sites, with the unsupported stories. You had your chance. You failed. It was 'put up or shut up' time when they investigated it, and you couldn't put up. So all you whiners out there really should shut up. You have nothing to say on the matter, and your investigations that proved us right, are the end of your story.
Okay....so you didn't like Salon......well then, how about this one:
Do Reports of WMD Found in Iraq Vindicate George W. Bush?
The report examined U.S. service personnel's encounters with abandoned chemical weapons in Iraq – and some conservatives were quick to pounce on the story as evidence that claims by Bush in the lead-up to the war that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction were true and that the United States' 2003 invasion was justified.
“Conservatives may hope to exploit the New York Timesreport, but the article references pre-1991 weapons,” wrote Steve Benen on the MaddowBlog. “Everything Republicans said in the lead up to the 2003 invasion is still wrong. Indeed, a little common sense is in order – if U.S. troops had found WMD stockpiles, the Bush/Cheney administration would have said so. Indeed, they were desperate to do exactly that.”
New York Times Reports WMD Found in Iraq - US News
As for the CIA informing Bush, Chris Matthews gets CIA former Deputy Director to admit that Bush/Cheney didn't tell the truth regarding WMDs.
You still are not grasping the point.
First, we've been over this missing WMDs already.
Inside the Ring Syria Iraq and weapons of mass destruction - Washington Times
The U.S.-Russia agreement to dismantle Syria’s chemical weapons is reigniting a controversy over the 2003 covert operation by Russian special operations forces to remove Iraqi weapons — including chemical arms — and move them to Syria and Lebanon prior to the Iraq War.
John A. Shaw, a former Pentagon official who first disclosed the Iraqi-Russian collaboration to The Washington Times, said the agreement brokered by Moscow could resolve unanswered questions about the arms transfers.
We already know that Russian special forces were deployed to Iraq, to remove WMDs prior to the invasion. It's a fact.
However, let us even assume for the moment that this didn't happen.
Still don't disprove the point. Because, the chemical and biological weapons found, were not supposed to exist. Saddam was required to destroy those weapons, according to the ceasefire agreement, and UN resolutions.
So even then, that was proof that Bush and Cheney were right. Saddam did have WMD, and he was in violation of UN resolutions and the ceasefire agreement.
But let's even suggest that those weapons didn't exist.
Even if Saddam had no WMD, chemical or otherwise at all..... He *STILL* was in violation of the UN resolutions and the ceasefire agreement. He violated both constantly throughout the 1990s.
He was required.... not an option, not an idea.... but required to allow free and open access to military sites to verify the destruction of his military arsenal, by UN inspections. He did not do this.
So all that other crap.... doesn't matter. Not important. He didn't follow the agreement, and thus was in violation, and therefore we were completely justified and right to engage in military action.
This is like driving the speed limit. But I'm not drunk. Doesn't matter. But I have a license. Doesn't matter. But I have no points, and my driving record is clean. Doesn't matter. But I haven't broken any other laws, and I'm a model citizen.
None of that matter. You were driving too fast. You were over the speed limit. Just because you didn't break any 'other' laws, doesn't mean you can ignore the speed limit.
Similarly, if all the rest of what I just pointed out was not true.... he still violated the UN resolutions. That ALONE justifies military action.
LASTLY......
You are still ignoring that regardless of what was found, or what was not found, or what was moved, or not moved....... That still doesn't mean Bush / Cheney *lied*. They didn't lie. Everything they said, was backed by the intelligence we had at the time, according to the Rockefeller report.
You had your chance to prove they lied, and you proved the opposite. You proved they were telling the truth, as it was known at the time. You fail. Period. Game over. Checkmate. Nothing you ever post... .nothing... will ever change the conclusion of the investigation into the statements made by the administration prior to the war, which found they were all supported by the intelligence information we had at the time.
Fin!