White House dismisses report charging government's false statements

WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- The study alleging that U.S. President George W. Bush and his top advisers made about 935 false statements to advocate Iraq war was even not "worth spending time on," a White House spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
"I hardly think that the study is worth spending time on," spokeswoman Dana Perino said as a response to the Center for Public Integrity's assessment.
The study did not take into consideration the statements by U.S. lawmakers or "people around the world" reflecting what she described as a consensus that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).
"We were part of a broad coalition of countries that deposed the dictator based on a collective understanding of the intelligence," she said.
Perino also denounced the study for not recognizing President Bush's effort to "make reforms in the intelligence community" to make sure that the mistakes would not happen again after realizing that there was no WMDs in Iraq.
The study released on Tuesday alleged that Bush and his then secretary of state Colin Powell made the most false statements as they sought to drum up support from the March 2003 invasion to topple Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.