More in the series of commentary on the administration’s case for the war.
Bad Iraq Data From Start to Finish
Americans were duped: Evidence of Administration manipulation and mendacity just keeps rolling in.
Ever since the tragedy of Sept. 11, the Bush Administration has relied on selective and distorted intelligence data to make the case for invading Iraq. But the truth will out, and the White House is now scrambling to explain away its mendacity.
On Sunday, Condoleezza Rice admitted that President Bush had used a forged document in his State of the Union speech to prove Iraq represented a nuclear threat: “We did not know at the time–maybe someone knew down in the bowels of the agency–but no one in our circles knew that there were doubts and suspicions that this might be a forgery. Of course it was information that was mistaken.”
rest of the article at
http://thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030623&s=scheer20030610
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