We Wouldn't Have Invaded Iraq If We Knew The Truth About WMDs

In what was a remarkable admission that contradicted - to a large extent - the past statements from his onetime boss, former Bush strategist Karl Rove said on Tuesday evening that had the President known Iraq did not possess weapons of mass destruction, the United States would not have gone to war. Full Story »

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James Canning
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by James Canning - Dec. 3, 2008

Very interesting historical revisionism, and essentially a load of rubbish from Karl Rove. The CIA knew Iraq had no WMD but the Dick Cheney gang made sure that information was kept buried at Langley. Knowingly false intelligence was used to dupe the American public into allowing the invasion to go forward, to create an illegal war, but Rove camouflages this by claiming Bush would not have gone to war if he knew there were no WMD.

I think Cheney knew there were no WMD and rushed the invasion forward because he feared this knowledge would become too generally known if war was delayed. Bush, being an arrogant ignoramus of the first degree, may have been duped in part by Cheney, so that Bush actually believed WMD would be found, to justify the invasion.

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