16 Articles That Expose How They Lied Us Into War in Iraq
A list by Scott Horton for the anniversary of the start of the Iraq War
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For the Anniversary of the start of Iraq War II, here's how they lied us into war:
3:27 PM - 20 Mar 2015
These are the articles Scott subsequently tweeted.
Raw Story: Path of War Timeline
The Path of War Timeline - By Larisa Alexandrovna and Muriel Kane, Raw Story Section Date Description 1999-2001 January… www.rawstory.com
Selective Intelligence - The New Yorker
They call themselves, self-mockingly, the Cabal-a small cluster of policy advisers and analysts now based in the… www.newyorker.com
The Stovepipe - The New Yorker
Since midsummer, the Senate Intelligence Committee has been attempting to solve the biggest mystery of the Iraq war… www.newyorker.com
The Lie Factory
It's a crisp fall day in western Virginia, a hundred miles from Washington, D.C., and a breeze is rustling the red and… www.motherjones.com
In Rumsfeld's Shop
Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski recently retired from the U.S. Air Force. Her final posting was as an analyst at the… www.theamericanconservative.com
Conscientious Objector
By the end of the summer of 2002, our Near East South Asia (NESA) office spaces were beginning to get crowded. Several… www.theamericanconservative.com
Open Door Policy
Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, a former Pentagon insider, concludes her observations on the run-up to the Iraq war in this… www.theamericanconservative.com
The new Pentagon papers
In July of last year, after just over 20 years of service, I retired as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force. I… www.salon.com
How Ahmed Chalabi conned the neocons
The hawks who launched the Iraq war believed the deal-making exile when he promised to build a secular democracy with… www.salon.com
Special investigation: The spies who pushed for war on Iraq
It represents the Bush administration's second catastrophic intelligence failure. But the CIA and FBI's inability to… www.theguardian.com
Agents of Influence
Did Ariel Sharon, the Prime Minister of Israel, run a covert program with operatives in high-level US government… www.thenation.com
CIA Probe Finds Secret Pentagon Group Manipulated Intelligence on Iraqi Threat, by Jason Leopold
half-dozen former CIA agents investigating prewar intelligence have found that a secret Pentagon committee, set up by… www.antiwar.com
“Special” Pentagon Unit Skirted CIA on Iraq
Spy Unit Skirted CIA on Iraq By Greg Miller The Los Angeles Times Wednesday 10 March 2004 Pentagon group's role in… www.truth-out.org
Report: Abusive tactics used to seek Iraq-al Qaida link
The use of abusive interrogation - widely considered torture - as part of the Bush administration's quest for a… www.mcclatchydc.com
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"Practice to Deceive" by Joshua Micah Marshall
The Washington Monthly: \ www.washingtonmonthly.com
Later additions:
US: Lockheed Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
by Richard Cummings, Playboy.com January 16th, 2007 In November of 2002, Stephen J. Hadley, deputy national security… scotthorton.org
How Neoconservatives Conquered Washington - and Launched a War, by Michael Lind
A merica's allies and enemies alike are baffled. What is going on in the United States? Who is making foreign policy… www.antiwar.com
The Man Who Sold the War
The road to war in Iraq led through many unlikely places. One of them was a chic hotel nestled among the strip bars and… www.commondreams.org
Also see this brand new one:
The CIA Just Declassified the Document That Supposedly Justified the Iraq Invasion | VICE News
Thirteen years ago, the intelligence community concluded in a 93-page classified document used to justify the invasion… news.vice.com
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