About WMD’s. He did it to oust Hussein. Duh.
I’m sure Bush, Cheney, and company will now offer their heartfelt apologies for going to war on a lie.
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February 15, 2011 at 9:24 am
Plain Jane
Rumsfeld’s only regret is that he resigned. Cheney’s that he didn’t get to rule the world. Bush doesn’t know what the word means. If you expect any apologies from this crowd, you’re going to be sorely disappointed.
They should all be in prison along with Janabi and Chalabi.
February 15, 2011 at 9:32 am
Mitch
After Powell’s WMD speech, “Curveball” was told not to speak and kept in confinement:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/feb/15/defector-admits-wmd-lies-iraq-war
“After the speech, Janabi said he called his handler at the BND and accused the secret service of breaking an agreement that they would not share anything he had told them with another country. He said he was told not to speak and placed in confinement for around 90 days.”
February 15, 2011 at 12:15 pm
Erasmus
I opposed our invasion of Iraq and I also believed that Saddam Hussein possessed or was in the process of creating weapons of mass destruction. There may have been lies used to justify the war, but there is no evidence that Bush and Cheney consciously lied when they referred to WMDs. I don’t feel the slightest bit ashamed of my erroneous belief that WMDs existed in Iraq. Given Saddam’s past behavior and his frequent stonewalling of UN weapons inspectors (recounted in chief inspector’s Richard Butler’s book about his experience in Iraq), I had every right to think as I did. Those who disagreed with me were accidentally right. — Bush and Cheney deserve ignominy for not understanding the consequences of the invasion. What they should apologize for is a shallow knowledge of human nature and of Iraqi society —- and for a too lax attitude towards torture.
February 15, 2011 at 1:59 pm
Mitch
Erasmus,
It’s one thing that you believed that Saddam Hussein had WMD. At least as far as I know, you don’t get daily intelligence briefings.
It’s another thing that Mr. Bush believed it, despite warnings from our own and other intelligence agencies that the evidence on which this belief was based was extremely flimsy.
The history is already clear — Mr. Bush and his believers chose to believe those facts which suited their preexisting goals, and equally chose to ignore others, even when “others” constituted the vast majority of the evidence. People can call it lying or merely thriving on ignorance; even if the head of an intelligence agency had personally handed Mr. Bush a note saying that it had been conclusively established that there were no WMD, Mr. Bush could simply assert that the didn’t believe the note and there is no way anyone could disprove him. It’s just another aspect of the intellectual laziness with which Mr. Bush met the world.
February 15, 2011 at 6:24 pm
Anonymous
It wasn’t laziness. He wanted information to support an invasion of Iraq and he wanted nothing else.
February 16, 2011 at 8:47 am
Erasmus
And the CIA gave him what he undoubtedly wanted: a “slam-dunk” (in the immortal words of George Tenet) that WMDs existed in Iraq. — Most of us find what we seek, and that includes those who despise GW Bush. In his case, damning evidence is always just around the corner when it isn’t staring us in the face.
February 16, 2011 at 9:39 am
Plain Jane
Seymore Hersh did a great write up on the “stovepiping” of intelligence straight to the White House Iraqi Group, bypassing analysis by professionals so they could cherry pick claims and present them as facts from the CIA to justify attacking Iraq. I can’t imagine any one really believing they were acting in good faith. They all belong in prison for war crimes, with possibly the exception of Bush because its quite possible he didn’t have a clue what they were up to. He said what he was told to say and signed what he was told to sign, just like Reagan did.
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February 16, 2011 at 9:45 am
Plain Jane
I think Tenet got that Medal of Freedom for his betrayal of the CIA, blaming them for the administration’s use of claims from unreliable sources which the CIA wasn’t allowed to vet.