Incredibility

Áine on May 19th, 2005 filed in Politics

The lies that led to war By Juan Cole : “A leaked British memo, and other documents, make it clear that Bush intended all along to invade Iraq — and lied about it to the American people. The full gravity of his offense has not yet sunk in.

When Newsweek’s source admitted that he had misidentified the government document in which he had seen an account of Quran desecration at Guantánamo prison, Pentagon spokesman Lawrence Di Rita exploded, “People are dead because of what this son of a bitch said. How could he be credible now?”

And as Mr. Cole rightly points out, the same could be said about the entire Bush administration… now that the secret Downing Street memo proves that “the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy” a full eight months before the invasion of Iraq. The White House has repeatedly denied accusations made by several top foreign officials that it manipulated intelligence estimates to justify an invasion of Iraq. In short, this memo proves that the American people were lied to by a sitting president of the United States and his administration. How could they possibly be credible now?

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