Left unsaid
In last night's State of the Union address, President Bush repeated many claims that don't pass muster. The non-partisan non-profit FactCheck.org, a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, has released an issue by issue rundown of the President's false claims.
In citing the Kay Report, Bush failed to mention that David Kay told the House and Senate intelligence committees:We have not yet found stocks of weapons . . . We have not yet been able to corroborate the existence of a mobile BW (biological weapons) production effort . . . . Multiple sources (say) that Iraq did not have a large, ongoing, centrally controlled CW (chemical warfare) program after 1991 .\xAC\x86. . . (and) to date we have not uncovered evidence that Iraq undertook significant post-1998 steps to actually build nuclear weapons or produce fissile material . . . . (and)\xAC\x86no detainee has admitted any actual knowledge of plans for unconventional warheads for any current or planned ballistic missile.
Bush cited strong economic growth in the third quarter but failed to mention that "at in the most recent month the job gain was almost nonexistent -- only 1,000 -- and that as of December total employment was still 2.3 million below where it stood when Bush took office in January 2001."
The list goes on. No Child Left Behind has left local schools to beg for cash and cut programs. While advocating free trade Bush has pursued inconsistent policies. He promised, again, to curb the deficit in five year while promising new costly programs and tax cuts. At least the part about curbing steroids in professional sports might actually come to pass, that should solve his problem with the "vision thing."
Who is this guy?
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