Where's the outrage? Why isn't Bush called to account? Can a president just out and out lie to convince a country to go to war without there being consequences. There was deception used by the Johnson administration over the Gulf of Tonkin incident, but not on the scale of the repeated lies the administration used as part of its pro-war campaign.
"An early-January story in The Washington Post and a new report from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace confirms what all but administration true believers have suspected to be true for some time; Iraq had no functioning weapons of mass destruction programs that could immediately threaten the United States.
In a long piece dated January 7, The Washington Post's Barton Gellman wrote: "Investigators have found no support for the two main fears expressed in London and Washington before the war: that Iraq had a hidden arsenal of old weapons and built advanced programs for new ones."
The Carnegie report, entitled "WMD in IRAQ: Evidence and Implications," concludes that Bush administration "officials misrepresented [the] threat from Iraq's WMD and ballistic missiles programs over and above intelligence findings." The findings in the Carnegie report were the result of more than six months of work, and were based on hundreds of documents and dozens of interviews with specialists, former weapons inspectors and current and former US officials."
"[T]his is nearly 10 months after the U.S. invasion, and the media has basically bailed on the important issue beyond the fact of missing WMD: Who was responsible for the lies? Are they too busy dealing with weightier matters, such as the Michael Jackson or Kobe Bryant sex cases? Are they overwhelmed by a bouillabaisse of homeland security stories dished out by Secretary Ridge's Department of Homeland Security? Or is it possible that "Bush Lied about Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction" is a headline that would be too darned hot to handle?"
"If there's any scandal brewing at this point, it's that the mainstream media has not held the Bush administration accountable for its misinformation and disinformation campaign about Iraq's WMD stockpiles."
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