http://www.semissourian.com/story/1170658.htmlRay McGovern spoke to about 200 people at the Osage Community Centre in Cape Girardeau.
The Iraq war is a "supreme international crime" and America will either leave voluntarily soon or be driven out by escalating violence in a debacle that will rival Vietnam, a former top analyst with the CIA said Saturday.
In a speech lasting more than 90 minutes, Ray McGovern, who retired after 27 years with the spy agency, suggested that impeachment of President George Bush should be considered and that the latest legislation on fighting terrorism is shredding constitutional rights.
The United States and its allies invaded Iraq on manipulated intelligence designed to convince the world that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons capable of killing thousands, if not millions, of people, McGovern told a gathering of about 200 at the Osage Community Centre in Cape Girardeau. Not only was that intelligence wrong, he said, but documents released in Britain and the United States show the intelligence agencies were strong-armed into making their conclusions fit the policy for war.
"There is no escaping the conclusion that what our country has done is commit the supreme international crime of starting a war of aggression," McGovern said. Aggressive war, he noted, was considered the most serious charge against Nazi leaders at Nuremberg because all other crimes of that regime stemmed from the charge of starting a war.
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