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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJust a reminder about the CIA and Iraq, since DT is lying (again).
He says the CIA lied about WMD's in Iraq.
Members of the Bush administration, including Colin Powell, provided grossly misleading information in open testimony to Congress -- not employees of the CIA.
Sen. Ted Kennedy, with his security clearance, was able to attend special classified briefings with the CIA. He said the information he'd been given there was different than what Powell had said -- and was why he voted against the Iraq war at the time. Unfortunately, because it was a classified briefing, he wasn't able to tell fellow Senators what he'd learned.
Generator
(7,770 posts)I've pointed that out on twitter to people. CIA did not want that war. Cheney neo-cons, BOLTON whose back did! GAWD. The useful idiots can't even get history from 10 years ago straight.
WhiteTara
(29,676 posts)The media has amnesia again.
marybourg
(12,540 posts)Jean-Jacques Roussea
(475 posts)Everything he says is a lie. Imagine if Bush said that we invaded Iraq and removed Saddam and we the citizen bore the responsibility to check and see if any of our soldiers were actually in the ME. Crazy.
pnwmom
(108,925 posts)exboyfil
(17,857 posts)Folks seem to forget that Pence was arguing for the existence of WMDs even into 2004.
https://www.democracynow.org/2016/7/22/headlines/vp_pick_mike_pence_in_2004_wmds_have_been_found_in_iraq
pnwmom
(108,925 posts)ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)Never believe anything DT says. Because he is a lying manipulative narcissist.
http://www.salon.com/2016/12/10/an-fbi-profiler-explains-trumps-narcissism_partner/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialflow
dooner
(1,217 posts)wasn't George Tenet (head of the CIA in the build up to Iraq war) also implicated in the false WMD claims?
I realize that VP Cheney was pulling the "intelligence" strings, but didn't Tenet more or less sit by?
pnwmom
(108,925 posts)neeksgeek
(1,214 posts)Here is another article on this topic.
http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2011/12/leadup-iraq-war-timeline
pnwmom
(108,925 posts)OregonBlue
(7,744 posts)was given the medal of freedom. The long-time members of the CIA made it clear it was not true.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Too many innocent people died because of Cheney and the OSP.
lanlady
(7,133 posts)WMD in Iraq... sadly, Darth Cheney "overruled" the experts.
pnwmom
(108,925 posts)annabanana
(52,791 posts)that would justify the invasion.. I remember that.
Gman
(24,780 posts)No, that wasn't the CIA that said there were WMD's in Iraq. That would be the office of the vice-president. Dick Cheney.