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Article: Did we get lied into war? Did the Bush administration use deliberate deception to bring America into war with Iraq? The Senate Intelligence Committee's June 2008 report may get us closer to the truth.(TERRORISM)(George W. Bush)
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- The New American
- Article date:
- July 7, 2008
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On June 5, the Senate Intelligence Committee, concluding five years of investigations (and partisan disagreements), released its report about whether the Bush administration had based its decision to attack Iraq on valid intelligence estimates or had lied us into war. The New York Times summed up the report: "The 170-page report accuses Mr. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other top officials of repeatedly overstating the Iraqi threat in the emotional aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks. Its findings were endorsed by all eight committee Democrats and two Republicans, Senators Olympia Snowe of Maine and Chuck Hagel of Nebraska."
The chairman of the committee, ...