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wonton · 03-31-2003, 12:55 PM

New Yorker Article

Click on above link. Here is a telling excerpt from the article:

The Bush Administration?s reliance on the Niger documents may, however, have stemmed from more than bureaucratic carelessness or political overreaching. Forged documents and false accusations have been an element in U.S. and British policy toward Iraq at least since the fall of 1997, after an impasse over U.N. inspections. Then as now, the Security Council was divided, with the French, the Russians, and the Chinese telling the United States and the United Kingdom that they were being too tough on the Iraqis. President Bill Clinton, weakened by the impeachment proceedings, hinted of renewed bombing, but, then as now, the British and the Americans were losing the battle for international public opinion. A former Clinton Administration official told me that London had resorted to, among other things, spreading false information about Iraq. The British propaganda program?part of its Information Operations, or I/Ops?was known to a few senior officials in Washington. ?I knew that was going on,? the former Clinton Administration official said of the British efforts. ?We were getting ready for action in Iraq, and we wanted the Brits to prepare.?

03-31-2003, 12:55 PM
wonton Confirmed User Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 802	The New Yorker States that the CIA and MI6 Lied about WMD in Order to Get their War!! New Yorker Article Click on above link. Here is a telling excerpt from the article: The Bush Administration?s reliance on the Niger documents may, however, have stemmed from more than bureaucratic carelessness or political overreaching. Forged documents and false accusations have been an element in U.S. and British policy toward Iraq at least since the fall of 1997, after an impasse over U.N. inspections. Then as now, the Security Council was divided, with the French, the Russians, and the Chinese telling the United States and the United Kingdom that they were being too tough on the Iraqis. President Bill Clinton, weakened by the impeachment proceedings, hinted of renewed bombing, but, then as now, the British and the Americans were losing the battle for international public opinion. A former Clinton Administration official told me that London had resorted to, among other things, spreading false information about Iraq. The British propaganda program?part of its Information Operations, or I/Ops?was known to a few senior officials in Washington. ?I knew that was going on,? the former Clinton Administration official said of the British efforts. ?We were getting ready for action in Iraq, and we wanted the Brits to prepare.?