SCHAKOWSKY: BUSH ADMINISTRATIONS MISSTATEMENT OF THE DAY IRAQ

SEPTEMBER 23, 2003

SCHAKOWSKY: BUSH ADMINISTRATION'S MISSTATEMENT OF THE DAY -IRAQ

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Chief Deputy Whip, issued today's "Bush Administration's Misstatement of the Day" on Iraq:

During his address before the United Nations on Tuesday, September 23, 2003, President Bush said:

"The regime of Saddam Hussein cultivated ties to terror while it built weapons of mass destruction." And "Iraq [is] the central front in the war on terror."

Schakowsky said, "The case for war in Iraq presented by President Bush to the world and to the people of the United States is neither supported by evidence nor facts. Where are the weapons of mass destruction? Where is the link to Al Qaeda? The American people and the world are waiting for the truth."

Read: CLAIMS & FACTS -- Rhetoric, Reality and the War in Iraq. (A report prepared by Produced by the Center for American Progress)