Uncovered: The Whole Truth about the Iraq War

The movie below, Uncovered: The Whole Truth about the Iraq War, documents the lies that led the United States to the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq. Released in November 2003, this film contains the "actual arguments, speeches, and spin given by President Bush and his senior advisors before, during, and after the Iraq invasion." The film's transcript is HERE.

It is impossible to grasp the full extent of the lies and spin by President Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and Condoleeza Rice without watching the entire film--lies about Saddam Hussein possessing nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and mobile laboratories, and having direct ties with al-Qaeda, for example.

However, excerpts by Donald Rumsfeld will show how the administration's spin and lies "changed" from before the invasion and occupation of Iraq to after the occupation of Iraq. The lies had to "change" to meet the reality on the ground, to admit, basically, that Americans were lied into the invasion and occupation of Iraq. Rumsfeld's statements about Iraq's supposed nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons are stated directly below:

Note the progression of lies: These are lies about nuclear weapons before, during, and after the invasion and occupation:

Rumsfeld: "His regime has an active program to acquire and develop nuclear weapons, and let there be no doubt about it."

Rumsfeld: "I have reason, every reason to believe that the intelligence we were operating off was correct."

Rumsfeld: (of nuclear weapons) "We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south, and north somewhat."

Rumsfeld: "Uh, and uh, and that we will in fact find weapons or evidence of the weapons programs that are conclusive."

Rumsfeld: "This (finding the nuclear weapons) is a process that takes some time, and, uh, it will ebb and flow."

Rumsfeld: "I don't know anybody that I can think of that has contended that the Iraqis had nuclear weapons."

Rumsfeld: "So it's going to take a period of time to find the people; I don't think we'll find anything myself."

Rumsfeld: "I think what will happen is we'll discover people who will tell us where to go find it" (in reference to weapons of mass destruction).

Rumsfeld: "It, it, it's not like a treasure hunt where you just run around looking everywhere hoping you find something. I just don't think that's going to happen; the inspectors didnt find anything, and I doubt that we will."

Rumsfeld: "What we will do is find the people who will tell us. There are a lot of people who lie and get away with it, and that's just a fact."