Anyone surprised?
A new book by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind -- “The Way of the World” -- claims that the White House ordered the CIA to forge a back-dated, handwritten letter from the head of Iraqi intelligence to Saddam Hussein in an attempt to tie Hussein to the 9/11 attacks.
Suskind reports that Saddam Hussein’s intelligence chief, Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti, told US and British officials there were no WMD in Iraq, “intelligence they received in plenty of time to stop an invasion.”
Suskind writes that in the fall of 2003, the White House ordered CIA Director George Tenet to forge a “fake letter from Habbush to Saddam, backdated to July 1, 2001.” “It said that 9/11 ringleader Mohammad Atta had actually trained for his mission in Iraq” and that Iraq bought yellowcake uranium from Niger with the help of al Qaeda.
The letter was commissioned “from the highest reaches of the White House.” “It would have to come from the very top,” Suskind told NPR today.
Suskind also said he spoke with U.S. intelligence officials who stated that Bush was informed unequivocally in January 2003 that Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction.
Read more here: United Press International, "Book: CIA forged key Iraq war document"
4000-plus dead soldiers later...thousands wounded physically and mentally...countless innocent Iraqi civilians killed and maimed.
All which could have been prevented.
Wow....I bet cable news is all over this…
<crickets chirping>
Why does this administration always get a pass? Why is there no opposition, oversight or accountability?
Maybe it's why we have $4 a gallon gas, Recession, job losses, inflation, housing crisis, and record Corporate profits and salaries -- to keep us all impoverished, afraid of losing what little we do have...and silent.
And the best rebuttal they can come up with is the silly claim that Suskind, a Pulitzer winner and former reporter for some of the nation’s highly regarded and very conservative publications, makes his living from “gutter journalism.”
See, they know they have gotten away with it. The idea of impeachment is crazy and much much too late now. Bush fatigue and the need to fix the mess they're leaving behind will prevent serious investigation of their crimes.
Be thankful for investigative journalists like Suskind. They are the only thing out there (okay, a couple of Democrats in Congress) trying to tell the truth.
