WTF Is It Now?!?

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The lie factory
"The reports, virtually all false, of Iraqi weapons and terrorism ties emanated from an apparatus that began to gestate almost as soon as the Bush administration took power. In the very first meeting of the Bush national-security team, one day after President Bush took the oath of office in January 2001, the issue of invading Iraq was raised, according to one of the participants in the meeting

"Edward Luttwak, a neoconservative scholar and author, says flatly that the Bush administration lied about the intelligence it had because it was afraid to go to the American people and say that the war was simply about getting rid of Saddam Hussein. Instead, says Luttwak, the White House was groping for a rationale to satisfy the United Nations' criteria for war.

"'Cheney was forced into this fake posture of worrying about weapons of mass destruction,' he says. 'The ties to Al Qaeda? That's complete nonsense.'" - - snipped from a must-read at Mother Jones.