A Whistle Blower Takes on the War Machine (Phila Inquirer)

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A whistle-blower takes on the war machine

In the end, the administration's attack on me deflected American public

By Joseph C. Wilson IV


The Bush administration lied to get us into war, and it lied when it said the war in Iraq was part of the struggle against terrorism.

The invasion of Iraq may have been about other things: among them, the President's otherworldly vision of bringing what he calls the Almighty's gift of freedom to the Middle East, at the barrel of a gun. But it was not about weapons of mass destruction, and it was not about terrorism. At least not until we attacked and gave al-Qaeda the best recruitment tool it ever had.

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