Bush's Deceptions on Iraq Intelligence

By Derrick Z. Jackson, 6/6/2003

WITH SUCH empty hands after the battle, President Bush is losing the war for his honor. The primary pretext for his unprecedented first-strike war was that Iraq's Saddam Hussein had the most horrifying arsenal of weapons of mass destruction on earth.

Last summer, Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said "there is no doubt" and "there's just no question" that Hussein had the weapons. Bush turned up the rhetoric in September. "For the sake of your children's future," Bush said, "we must make sure this madman never has the capacity to hurt us with a nuclear weapon, or to use the stockpiles of anthrax that we know he has, or VX, the biological weapons which he possesses."

In his fateful 48-hour warning to Saddam to leave Iraq, Bush said, "Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised."

With about 180 American soldiers sacrificed and thousands of Iraqi soldiers and citizens killed, the unprecedented war is unraveling into a scandal that dwarfs President Clinton's Thong-gate and threatens to surpass the violation of national trust symbolized by Watergate. Bill and Monica was about lying about sex. Watergate was about President Nixon lying about a break-in.

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Iraq is about Bush sending Americans to die for what may have been a lie.

Despite 160,000 American and British troops and the world's greatest technology, no weapons of mass destruction have been found...

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