If this is a news flash to you, where you been Rumplestiltskin? What strikes me as funny, tragically funny is that this study was funded by a nonprofit journalism organization…about 7 years too late. We sit stuck in the muck of Iraq because the “press” did not do their job and fact check these very “false statements” when they were being spread…if the press is looking for redemption and forgiveness, they are not going to get it here.

A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.

The study concluded that the statements “were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses.”

The study was posted Tuesday on the Web site of the Center for Public Integrity, which worked with the Fund for Independence in Journalism.