Paul Wolfowitz despicably reprising old lies on Iraq

Remember how we had to go into Iraq allegedly because of al-Qaida? It was wrong -- and the abject lie is returning

HEATHER DIGBY PARTON

Back in 2008, the Center for Public Integrity and its affiliated group, the Fund for Independence in Journalism, released a study of the false rationales that led the nation into the Iraq War. It found that leading Bush administration officials had publicly lied at least 935 times. The major lie was about the Saddam Hussein regime possessing weapons of mass destruction. But the second most common lie was that there was a link between Saddam and al-Qaida, which made the possibility of an Iraqi nuclear weapon falling into the hands of the terrorists who perpetrated 9/11 particularly frightening.



Perhaps the most relentless purveyor of that lie, and one of the earliest to make the case, was Vice President Dick Cheney, who famously said on “Meet the Press” less than two months after the 9/11 attacks:

“Well, the evidence is pretty conclusive that the Iraqis have indeed harbored terrorists.”

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