President Bush Finally Admits He Misled the Nation
During State of the Union Address
Press Release from
Rep. Jan Schakowsky
July 8, 2003
CHICAGO, IL -U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL)
today issued the following statement after the White House finally
admitted that President Bush should not have claimed in his State of the
Union address that Iraq attempted to buy uranium in Africa to
reconstitute its nuclear weapons program:
"After months of denials, President Bush has finally
admitted that he misled the American public during his State of the
Union address when claimed that Iraq attempted to purchase uranium in
Africa. That is why we need an independent commission to determine the
veracity of the other so-called evidence used to convince the American
people that war with Iraq was unavoidable.
"It is not enough for the White House to issue a
statement saying that President Bush should not have used that piece of
intelligence in his State of the Union address at a time when he was
trying to convince the American people that invading Iraq was in our
national security interests. Did the president know then what he says he
only knows now? If not, why not, since that information was available at
the highest level.
"What else did the Bush Administration lie about? What
other faulty information did Administration officials, including
President Bush, tell the American people and the world? Did the Bush
Administration knowingly deceive us and manufacture intelligence in
order to build public support for the invasion of Iraq? Did Iraq really
pose an imminent threat to our nation?
"These questions must be answered. The American people
deserve to know the full truth."
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Schakowsky is an original cosponsor of H.R. 2625,
legislation authored by U.S. Representative Henry Waxman to create an
independent commission - modeled after the September 11 Commission - to
examine the intelligence about Iraq and the representations made by
executive branch officials about this intelligence.
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