Bush Again Denies Lying To Get U.S. Troops Into Iraq

George W. Bush still is nothing more than a damn liar when the question turns to why he invaded Iraq. Bush Again Denies Lying To Get U.S. Troops Into IraqBy Cliff Montgomery – Aug. 8th, 2008The Bush Administration and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) on Tuesday quickly denied a clear and long-verified truth that the White House and some agency leaders lied to get our troops and our country into Iraq for no legitimate reason.This most recent denial of reality was in response to a charge from reporter Ron Suskind in his new book, “The Way of the World,” released on Tuesday.Suskind states that the Bush Administration “concocted a fake letter purporting to show a link between Saddam Hussein’s regime and al-Qaida as a justification for the Iraq War,” according to The Associated Press.The letter in question supposedly was penned by Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti, Iraqi intelligence director under Saddam Hussein.Bush White House Deputy Press Secretary Tony Fratto crowed, “The notion that the White House directed anyone to forge a letter from Habbush to Saddam Hussein is absurd”–a denial of character that itself is stunningly absurd.But the biggest lie? Both Fratto and George Tenet, former CIA director, also denied a long-proven fact which Suskind discusses in his book: That the Bush Administration had credible intelligence, long before its 2003 charge into Iraq, that Hussein no longer possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs).Now, here’s the truth.Douglas Feith, the former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy at the Pentagon during the lead-up to the 2003 invasion, is the person whom many call the main architect of the false intelligence which got America into Iraq.A February 2007 review by the Defense Department Inspector General (DoD IG)–which long ago was discussed by –clearly stated that Feith’s office blatantly “developed, produced, and then disseminated alternative intelligence assessments on the Iraq and al-Qaida relationship, which included some conclusions that were inconsistent with the consensus of the Intelligence Community, to senior decision makers.”The IG’s report also found that “the CIA and DIA disavowed any ‘mature, symbiotic’ relationship between Iraq and al-Qaida.”But what of those vast WMD stores, primarily consisting of weapons which supposedly had been around for years? As this reporter verified as early as May 2003 in a report for Alternet:”The U.S. Defense Department’s ‘Militarily Critical Technologies List’ (MCTL) is ‘a detailed compendium of technologies’ that the department advocates as ‘critical to maintaining superior US military capabilities. It applies to all mission areas, especially counter-proliferation.'”Written in 1998,” this reporter then continued, “it was recently re-published with updates for 2002″–that is, this report on WMDs in Iraq and around the world was re-published shortly before the Bush Administration invaded Iraq in March 2003, to ‘look for WMDs’.”So what is the MCTL’s opinion of Iraq’s chemical weapons program? In making its chemical nerve agents, ‘The Iraqis…produce[d] a…mixture which was inherently unstable,’ says the report.“When the Iraqis produced chemical munitions they appeared to adhere to a ‘make and use’ regimen. Judging by the information Iraq gave the United Nations, later verified by on-site inspections [throughout the 1990s], Iraq had poor product quality for their nerve agents. This low quality was likely due to a lack of purification. They had to get the agent to the front promptly or have it degrade in the munition.”Furthermore, this Defense Department study revealed that, “The chemical munitions found in Iraq after the [first] Gulf War contained badly deteriorated agents and a significant proportion were visibly leaking.””The shelf life of these poorly made agents were said to be a few weeks at best–hardly the stuff of vast chemical weapons stores,” this reporter further uncovered in May 2003.Still other reports verified that “any [Iraqi] chemical weapons facilities operating in recent years would, like their nuclear counterpart, have given off vented gases; and any new biological weapons programs would have to start again from scratch.”Both activities would have been easily detected by Western intelligence, and no such evidence has been produced,” this reporter added.Now let The Spark make this clear: In May 2003, two months after George W. Bush began the fruitless-nation building of Iraq, this reporter disproved the essential claims that Iraq still maintained vast chemical and biological weapons stores–primarily with the U.S. government’s own intelligence reports.Americans are to believe that George Bush’s Pentagon worked on, edited and released an updated version of the MCTL in 2002 (the section on Iraq was exactly the same as the 1998 version), without having any knowledge of either the report or of its contents.We’ll say it here, clearly and plainly to a listening world: When it comes to the reasons for invading Iraq, George W. Bush and those in his administration are nothing more than a pack of damn liars. And this reporter proved it years ago.Like what you’re reading so far? Then why not order a full year (52 issues) of thee-newsletter for only $15? 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