For ten terrible days now a shocked nation has looked on as one of our greatest cities has been destroyed along with thousands of square miles of the Gulf Coast. The final number of dead is yet unknown and the financial toll still to be calculated. At this point it has become clear that Katrina will be the greatest disaster to affect this nation in our lifetimes.
Yet, as the country cries and mourns for those who have died, the administration has seemed most concerned with damage control of a different kind. Instead of marshalling the full force of the US government to relieve the anguish of those effected, they have spent endless hours spinning the facts, trying to control perceptions, blaming others and most importantly lying to the American people. As has been the case so many times before, this administration’s chief goal seems to be to sweep the truth under the bed trying to hide it from the Americans people. This has been a hallmark of the Bush cabal since its inception.
Today DowningStreetMemo.com launches a new reference tool we hope will shine the light of truth on one aspect of the administrations greatest lies: “Misled to War” a complete timeline.
Started earlier this summer, the timeline/database is now complete and ready to go. “Misled to War” is a searchable database containing almost 1000 entries about the events that led us on a path to war. It presents a wide range of events, public statements, government documents and other references that relate to the Bush administration’s case for and waging of the war in Iraq. We’ve attempted to make this the definitive resource of its kind.
As recent poll numbers show, the American public is finally waking up to the fact that they have been thrust into a seemingly endless quagmire in Iraq, and many are beginning to question how we have come to this awful position. Hopefully “Mislead to War” can be helpful in answering those questions.
As we approach one of the most important election cycles in our lifetimes, perhaps you will find the database useful in countering the endless stream of lies and misdirection that come out of this White House and its minions.
We invite the internet community to make use of this reference tool, and to help us make it better with constructive feedback.
Thanks for the announcement and link.
A valuable resource – maybe the press will use it now that they’re finding their spines (one can hope). You’ve probably done this, but emailing a press release to them would be a good idea.
Thanks,
We are contacting the press but I fear at the present time little attention will be paid to “old news”. Hopefully they’ll bookmark it and use it at a later date. There’s a lot a very good information in the database and we hope that members of the reality based community use it to it’s full advantage.
Without even reading it(I will this evening when I get home from work) I say to all of you that have worked tiredlessly and shave so dedicated to this BRAVO!!!!Keep trying to get the MSM to publish it. If it follows well enough after I read it I will send it to my stubborn, George can do no wrong, sister. Thanks!
… we know this is bound to be lost right now in amongst the life and death issues in front of the nation now, but this issue is not going away. This issue makes everything else that much worse.
This issue must be investigated. We want to help bring that to pass.
As for your sister… she may just learn something new in seeing all those facts lined up, one after another after another…
You are welcome. As far as the sister goes forget it. She is hopelessly lost in Foxland. Believe me I have really tried. i even sent her via email a shitload of torture pictures after she told me it was ok to torture people. She also said tthe looters should be shot. Does that sound like a reasonable, sane person to you?
with family like that.
One of my sisters and brother-in-law just turned away from me at a family party a couple of months ago when (prodded by my parents) I described what I was doing with the website. He asked “I assume it is anti-war” and I said that it came out that way. They just abruptly turned around and went to go talk to someone else.
I wasn’t even going to mention the site, except my parents thought it was cool that we were on TV…
Oy.
It really sucks doesn’t it? He not only divided the country but so many families too. It sucks!
We who inhabit the reality based community of the progressive blogosphere must never ever forget that we are up against the greatest spin machine to ever exist. The mere fact that ten days after the greatest government failure in the history of the nation, there is even debate as to the how well the Bush administration handled this disaster is testament to how effective his propaganda machine is.
We must never forget that Bush’s first “GREAT LIE” was the way he dragged this nation into an endless war in Iraq. This lie is the cornerstone in the house of failures he has built. These failures have now culminated in the recent deaths of possibly 25,000 Americans.
It was only four months ago that the revelations in the Downing Street Memo first began to open the eyes of “average” Americans. It is our job, as those who see clearly, with minds unclouded by rhetoric and fanaticism to shine the light of truth under the slimy rocks from which Bush and his minion have crawled. As each new failure comes to light we must not only make sure that the facts about it get out, we must make sure that past failures, past lies, past disasters are not brushed under the carpet by an ever hasty news cycle. “Misled to War” is the resource needed to document that truth.