Here are the parts of the House Resolution to go to war. See any lies?
The Resolution cited several factors to justify action:
- Iraq's noncompliance with the conditions of the 1991 cease fire, including interference with weapons inspectors
- Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction, and programs to develop such weapons, posed a "threat to the national security of the United States and international peace and security in the Persian Gulf region"
- Iraq's "brutal repression of its civilian population"
- Iraq's "capability and willingness to use weapons of mass destruction against other nations and its own people"
- Iraq's hostility towards the United States as demonstrated by the 1993 assassination attempt of former President George H. W. Bush, and firing on coalition aircraft enforcing the no-fly zones following the 1991 Gulf War
- Members of al-Qaida were "known to be in Iraq"
- Iraq's "continu[ing] to aid and harbor other international terrorist organizations," including anti-United States terrorist organizations
- Fear that Iraq would provide weapons of mass destruction to terrorists for use against the United States
- The efforts by the Congress and the President to fight the 9/11 terrorists and those who aided or harbored them
- The authorization by the Constitution and the Congress for the President to fight anti-United States terrorism
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Actually, since I have the definition of "lie" handy ( http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=Lie, also available at www.webster.com/ ), I would have to say no, I didn't see any lies.
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