WASHINGTON (AP) — A senator is releasing new information he says is evidence the Bush administration misled the nation in the run-up to war in Iraq.
Michigan Democrat Carl Levin is chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee. He says a 2003 CIA cable warns against making references to claims that Mohammad Atta (moh-HAM’-ad AT’-ta) met with an Iraqi intelligence officer in the Czech Republic before the Sept. 11, 2011, attacks. Atta is the man who led the 9/11 hijackers.
He says Bush officials used the unconfirmed meeting to link Iraq to 9/11 in the public’s mind.
Levin is releasing a letter he received from CIA Director John Brennan who writes that no U.S. counterterrorism or FBI expert has said they have evidence or know that Atta was in Prague.
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Let’s put this in perspective. Sure, Bush lied us into a tragic war but his memorial socks, being peddled by the GOP, are to die for!
Sherman, set the Wayback machine to 2003.
Of course he did. We knew that at the time. Rational people watched the build up to the war, with war material being shipped over to the mideast. We knew what was going on. We knew he and his minions were manufacturing bullshit evidence to justify the war.
He wanted that war more than a teenage kid wants a car. He wanted to be the big hero for the republican party; he loved it that Cheney did all the work and he got to land on the carrier.
We listened to the bullshit arguments for ages before they finally decided now’s the time. We all knew it. The only people who refused to know it were the people representing the news business.
I don’t remember seeing “Misled” under the definition of Lied His Ass off.
Telling us what we already know accomplishes nothing. Put the criminals on trial, or not. If not, talk about something else.