Bush misinformation

Yesterday I posted about the problem this administration seems to have with the truth (see "Image, Truth and the Bush administration"). Uggabugga has also been looking at the Bush administration's tendency to be factually challenged, specifically in this case, in regards to the Iraqi situation, and has put together one of their excellent charts, showcasing several of their outright frauds, tendency to peddle dubious information, obfuscation via emphasis and other suspect stories, along with references to further information on the matter - which, in many cases, debunk the initial claims. Since I first spotted the chart yesterday, he's updated it further, so you may want to check it out periodically.

Several of the entries concern information spread about France and other countries that opposed our involvement in the war with Iraq, and their supposed activities in selling the Iraqis military equipment or otherwise helping Saddam's regime. Others deal with Bush's claims of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction; documents claiming Iraq was seeking uranium from Niger (forgery), British MP George Galloway was taking bribes from Iraq (forgery) and shownig a link between Iraq and al-Qaeda (veracity not known yet, but found under similar circumstances to the Galloway forgeries); the rescue of Pvt. Jessica Lynch; and much of the "proof" offered during Colin Powell's speech to the UN.