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War Criminals? Traitors? Or Both? How Should Bush-Cheney Be Remembered?

By Robert Justin Lipkin

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The truth was available for anyone to see; yet the administration managed to hoodwink the American people. Consider: "Claims by U.S. President George W. Bush and other top administration officials before bc:

the 2003 invasion of Iraq regarding Baghdad's ties to al Qaeda and its weapons of mass destruction (WMD) programmes were generally not supported by the evidence that the U.S. intelligence community had at the time, according to a major new report by the Senate Intelligence Committee released Thursday. . . . The long-awaited report, the last in a series published over the past several years by the committee, found that Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, in particular, frequently made assertions in the run-up to the war that key intelligence agencies could not substantiate or about which there was substantial disagreement within the intelligence community. . . . In making the case for war, the administration repeatedly presented intelligence as fact when in reality it was unsubstantiated, contradicted, or even non-existent,' the Committee chairman, Sen. Jay Rockefeller, said on releasing the 172-page report. 'As a result, the American people were led to believe that the threat from Iraq was much greater than actually existed. There is no question we all relied on flawed intelligence,' he added. 'But, there is a fundamental difference between relying on incorrect intelligence and deliberately painting a picture to the American people that you know is not fully accurate.'" Continue reading here.

Full post as published by Essentially Contested America on June 09, 2008 (boomark / email).