How Bush Sold the War

White House officials understandably preferred to declare affirmative messages about Iraq's future, rather than rehash the government's intelligence embarrassments. Even so, I thought it was a strategic error for the president to make no effort to defend the arguments that had motivated him before the war. Mr. Bush's political opponents were intent on magnifying the administration's mistakes regarding WMD. On television and radio, in print and on the ... Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
1.5
by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

The article is fogged by arguing the best sales pitch for selling an illegal and immoral invasion chosen by the neo-cons to try to steal Iraqi oil on the cheap from a country weakened by previous wars and decades of sanctions that worked to kill children and degrade a whole civilization. There were no WMD and the UN had essentially shown that before bush chased the UN out in order to invade. Why does Feith think one lie is better than another, because it works better?

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