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24 deceptions in 704 words: Bunnypants' 2003 SOTU
Pete Goodwin suffered so you don't have to: "It took a lot of Prozac and Norvasc but I finally finished parsing the POTUS' 'Denial and Deception' (their words, not mine) SOTU address." A sample:

18. 'Saddam Hussein had an advanced nuclear weapons development program... The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. Our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production.'

"Wow, a trifecta of deception in one paragraph...." - - Read more here.

Lying -- a Bush family value
"For the U.S. news media, there remains a great hesitancy about stating the obvious, calling Bush a liar. It's one thing to suggest that Bush was badly served by his staff on the Iraqi intelligence, but it remains outside the bounds to conclude that Bush willfully lied to the American people. The evidence, however, indicates that Bush played a central role in the deception campaign.

"Last January, for instance, the White House portrayed Bush as the man in charge of the State of the Union address. He edited the drafts, the White House said. He wrote notes in the margins. He gave his speech writers pointers. It's now clear that Bush's aides, in turn, pressed the CIA to let Bush use the strongest possible language about Iraq's alleged pursuit of uranium in Africa. Bush's speech then exaggerated the uranium claim even more, giving millions of Americans the impression that the uranium allegations were true, even as Bush's own intelligence officials thought the charges were bogus." - - Robert Parry.