Sexed Up

[sexobon]

Except that the Hutton Inquiry determined that "sexed up" didn't happen. The BBC's chairman Gavyn Davies and director-general Greg Dyke resigned. Journalist Andrew Gilligan resigned. The source of the allegation was identified as David Kelly who was found to have had a conflict of interest and committed suicide.

Paraphrased from Wikipedia.

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Originally Posted by sexobon

Except that the Hutton Inquiry determined that "sexed up" didn't happen.

Believe political spin that claims Mission Accomplished was a success. Politics and spin do not change facts. Today's Chilcot report makes obvious what should be common knowledge. Facts were sexed up to create lies - such as Saddam's mythical weapons of mass destruction. Using outright lies even from 'Curve Ball' to justify those lies. That biological and chemical weapons that could be launched within 45 minutes. Even 'Shock and Awe' was just another lie to sex it up to adults who use emotion to somehow justify their conclusions.

We pay for those lies even today in massive interest payments on almost $3 trillion that should have been invested into American infrastructure, education, and research. Instead we decided to torture - a Gestapo tradition. And then called that good. Even imprisoned most of 800 people in Guantanamo who were innocent.

An honest person would have criticized great American enemies from that period. Some, instead, search for and post irrelevant trivia as proof that reality is wrong.

George Jr's subordinates (ie Paul Bremer and Stephen Hadley) to this day still insist Mission Accomplished was a major American victory. Their lies could not be any more obvious.

Newt Gingrich called Bremer "the largest single disaster in American foreign policy in modern times". Gingrich got one fact wrong saying Bremer should have been removed in Sept 2003. He should have been removed on 12 May 2003 before he could create the reason for most of those 5000 dead American servicemen and even more civilians. Reasons for this mess linger today.

Today, Tony Blair also put forth spin and lies to justify his part in that fiasco. Anybody yet hear what will be Cheney's lies?

Lies to justify Mission Accomplished were sexed up no matter how many times one tries to spin and deny it. No honest American can justify what we all did to almost 5000 American servicemen. And to many tens of thousands more who live with life long complications due to those lies. And a resulting recession that occurs when the bills come due.