The manipulation of evidence to go to war
This is a very good article. The author gives links to the mainstream articles supporting the evidence. Please read and balance against our presidents denials. - Vox
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_11/007556.php
"...the issue here is not who was right and who was wrong, or even whether the overall weight of the evidence was sufficient to justify the war. It would have been perfectly reasonable for the White House to present all the evidence pro and con and then use that evidence to make the strongest possible case for war. But that's not what they did. Instead, they suppressed any evidence that might have thrown doubt on their arguments, making it impossible for the public to evaluate what they were saying..."
And don't think I'm taking our congresspeople off the hook. For those that were involved in the deception, they should be tried for treason. For those who were duped and intimidated into not looking deeper before authorizing war, they should not be in Washington representing us, the people on whose shoulders these decisions fall.
- Vox
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2005_11/007556.php
"...the issue here is not who was right and who was wrong, or even whether the overall weight of the evidence was sufficient to justify the war. It would have been perfectly reasonable for the White House to present all the evidence pro and con and then use that evidence to make the strongest possible case for war. But that's not what they did. Instead, they suppressed any evidence that might have thrown doubt on their arguments, making it impossible for the public to evaluate what they were saying..."
And don't think I'm taking our congresspeople off the hook. For those that were involved in the deception, they should be tried for treason. For those who were duped and intimidated into not looking deeper before authorizing war, they should not be in Washington representing us, the people on whose shoulders these decisions fall.
- Vox
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