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In reply to the discussion: It is to vomit. Judith Miller pushing new book to say 'We were not lied into war' on Morning Joke. [View all]moondust
(20,022 posts)Among other things, she claims she had followed the situation in Iraq for a long time before the 2003 invasion and that "everybody" in the international press believed Saddam still had WMD.
It wouldn't surprise me if BushCo dreamed up the whole scheme well in advance, maybe even in the 90s, to invade Iraq for the oil on the pretense that it was to take out Saddam's WMD, then after it's over and there's no WMD to blame the intelligence community since independent investigators can't get in there to find out the truth.
Maybe someday an old CIA analyst with terminal cancer will write a book to set the record straight. Until then everybody in the CIA who knew the truth is probably watched very closely, bribed and threatened as necessary to keep their mouths shut.