Lies of Treason
The Associated Press headline read “Panel: Congress was misled on Iraq uranium issue”. It topped a story about a House committee reporting that Alberto Gonzales and Condoleeza Rice had misled Congress on the reasons for invading Iraq. Specifically, the issue was that Gonzales and Rice had told Congress that the CIA had evidence that Saddam Hussein was trying to get uranium to make nuclear weapons.
The report says that the then-White House Council who became Attorney General and the then-head of the National Security Council who is now Secretary of State, in fact, lied. They knew at the time that the CIA had serious doubts about the suggestion and had succeeded in keeping the information out of the president’s public pronouncements until his State of the Union address in 2003.
That speech helped tip the public behind the case to invade a foreign nation. The costs of that action are yet to be totaled but will probably exceed two trillion dollars and perhaps a million lives, including thousands of Americans. The invasion and consequent obscenity of our torturous behavior at Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, and various rendition sites forever stained our global reputation.
Nothing is likely to result from this report. It’s little more than a reiteration of what everyone with a double-digit IQ has known for years. What was perfectly clear to everyone who cared for the truth.
These actions of Gonzales and Rice, plus Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Powell and their abettors in the Congress and military have done more damage to our nation than any administration in history, far worse than all the actions of all the terrorists who have attacked America and our interests.
But there is a distinct odor coming from Washington that these treasonous villains will not even face charges, let alone be imprisoned for their crimes. The failure at justice slanders the very rule of law.
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