This year marks the tenth anniversary of President George W. Bush’s State of the Union address containing the now infamous 16 words that turned out to be a very consequential lie:
“The British Government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”
Included in a collection of web materials associated with Rachel Maddow’s upcoming documentary “Hubris: The Selling of the Iraq War,” is a longer cut of that 2003 State of the Union address. It’s a powerful reminder of how thick the Bush administration laid it on to rally America to war in Iraq.
NBCNews.com
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Anonymous
A war based on false intelligence, lies and propaganda. It was all about the opium in Afghanistan and oil in Iraq for Bush and his neo-con partners! Today, the US is in $16 trillion debt, thousands of US soldiers dead and millions of Iraqis in penury due to this senseless and costly war. Shame.