09 March, 2008

republican insiders tell on each other about lies for iraq war

Did you know about Bush's declaration, at a Dec. 18, 2002, National Security Council meeting, that "war is inevitable?" The statement came weeks before U.N. weapons inspectors reported their initial findings on Iraq and months before Bush delivered an ultimatum to Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. Feith, who says he took notes at the meeting, registered it as a "momentous comment."

Did you know that Condoleezza Rice, Bush's national security adviser during most of Feith's time in office, failed in her primary task of coordinating policy on the war?

Did you know that there was widespread skepticism inside the top of the U.S. military about invading Iraq, with some generals arguing that doing so would distract attention from the war against global terrorists? ( exactly what happened.)

Did you know a war architect, then-Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul D. Wolfowitz, contended that Iraq would be able to pay for its reconstruction with oil revenue. (what a lie that one was)

Did you know that both the CIA and Powell, who outlined the weapons case in a February 2003 speech at the United Nations, lied about the magnitude of the threat of Sadaam? A crucial role was also played in statements from Cheney and Rice, about the imminence of "mushroom clouds" emanating from Iraqi nuclear weapons, a case for the administration"s war on Iraq that had already been decided.

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