Oh yeah, they’re busted
Monday, October 4th, 2004A new article in the New York times gives details on how the Bush administration lied about Iraq’s nuclear weapons program in order to sell the war to the public.
Senior administration officials repeatedly failed to fully disclose the contrary views of America’s leading nuclear scientists, an examination by The New York Times has found. They sometimes overstated even the most dire intelligence assessments of the tubes, yet minimized or rejected the strong doubts of nuclear experts. They worried privately that the nuclear case was weak, but expressed sober certitude in public.
The Times article is valuable because of its detail, and because it makes clear that administration officials weren’t just misinformed, but deliberately lying, about the prewar intelligence.
