Where’s my WMD?
Here are excerpts from Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz’s interview in Vanity Fair:
Wolfowitz: No, I think it happens to be correct. The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on which was weapons of mass destruction as the core reason.
Wolfowitz, while part of the administration’s duplicitous spin machine during the buildup to the invasion of Iraq, seems to have slipped up and spoken a rare truth about the use of WMD as a basis for the invasion.
In another article about WMD, the New York Times writer Nicholas Kristof reported yesterday about how the US intelligence community was used to provide the needed cover for the Bush administration’s invasion of Iraq. Here’s an excerpt from the article:
“The American people were manipulated,” bluntly declares one person from the Defense Intelligence Agency who says he was privy to all the intelligence there on Iraq. These people are coming forward because they are fiercely proud of the deepest ethic in the intelligence world — that such work should be nonpolitical — and are disgusted at efforts to turn them into propagandists.
“The Al Qaeda connection and nuclear weapons issue were the only two ways that you could link Iraq to an imminent security threat to the U.S.,” notes Greg Thielmann, who retired in September after 25 years in the State Department, the last four in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research. “And the administration was grossly distorting the intelligence on both things.”
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