The Sunday Times UK is reporting that Blair and Bush “more than doubled the rate at which they were dropping bombs on Iraq in 2002 in an attempt to provoke Saddam Hussein into giving the allies an excuse for war.”
Tommy Franks has also “admitted this operation was designed to ‘degrade’ Iraqi air defenses in the same way as the air attacks that began the 1991 Gulf war.”
Was the United States in search of a diplomatic solution to the ‘conflict?’ Was force a tool of last resort? Carefully crafted P.R. arguments now lie in shatters, yet nobody is holding our leaders accountable. Conservatives continue to argue that the U.S. and Iraq were engaged in a ‘war situation.’ The more a lie is repeated, the harder it is to dispute.
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