Lest you question my source for the following, please note that it's from and by Iraq Veterans Against the War:
General Accuses Bush Officials of "Deception"
On October 13, Thomas Ricks in Foreign Policy quoted former Joint Chiefs Chairman General Hugh Shelton from his book Without Hesitation: The Odyssey of an American Warrior:
"President Bush and his team got us enmeshed in Iraq based on extraordinarily poor intelligence and a series of lies purporting that we had to protect America from Saddam's evil empire because it posed such a threat to our national security.
Spinning the possible possession of WMDs as a threat to the United States in the way they did is, in my opinion, tantamount to intentionally deceiving the American people."
So just so we're clear on this, Iraq Veterans against the Iraq War are quoting one of their own--a general in our own military and on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for that matter--as saying this president--President George W. Bush and his administration (because I'm not leaving out Former Vice President Dick "Darth Vader" Cheney on this, for sure), et. al--mislead us at minimum, if they didn't outright lie to us in order to get our country into war with and in Iraq, for which we have paid and are paying, dearly.
But here, to me, is the beauty of their experience and of their writing now and what they ask:
Every American citizen at this point has access to enough evidence to substantiate allegations of a deliberate effort to deceive members of Congress into authorizing military force against Iraq. The only thing lacking is an Attorney General with the moral courage to do what is right no matter how many of President Obama's political opponents or fellow party members pressure him not to. Everyone who has worn the uniform or seen a family member off to war deserves to know the truth about how and why we got into Iraq.
The only thing lacking, other than the will of the American people.
Every American citizen at this point has access to enough evidence to substantiate allegations of a deliberate effort to deceive members of Congress into authorizing military force against Iraq. The only thing lacking is an Attorney General with the moral courage to do what is right no matter how many of President Obama's political opponents or fellow party members pressure him not to. Everyone who has worn the uniform or seen a family member off to war deserves to know the truth about how and why we got into Iraq.
The only thing lacking, other than the will of the American people.
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