WASHINGTON – Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell's ex-chief of staff said Thursday the former Secretary of State was lied to and manipulated by Vice President Dick Cheney into justifying the US invasion of Iraq. The primary justifications offered by the Bush administration for invading Iraq were that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction and had possible links to Al-Qaeda. Both turned out to be false.
Cheney was also hanging out at the CIA and putting heavy pressure on them to give him what he wanted. And when all that wasn't enough they opened up their own intel shop to better cook the books. There's no way to escape the conclusion that this crew deliberately lied this nation into war. And if they're not held to account there will be no deterrent against others doing the same thing in the future.
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