Intelligence USA

international | anti-war / imperialism | other press Sunday April 03, 2005 09:40 by cleaves

It’s now official, but do these admissions carry even a vestige of credibility? The US administration recently announced that it was grossly in error regarding internal intelligence assessments of the existence of WMDs in Iraq. Someone forgot to inform neo-con PR that the ‘bull’ has already wrecked the China shop.

The Wolfowitz plan for the invasion of Iraq has been a matter of public record for a considerable period; the existence of WMDs and the threat of impending attack was fabricated in order to ‘legitimise’ an illegal invasion and minimise any opposition to the plan. In order to remove the final legal barrier for a pre-planned illegal attack on Iraq the US embarked on a campaign to undermine the (accurate) conclusions of UN weapons inspectors. The UN was unable to contend with the US at the time; however, events have since confirmed the assessments of weapons inspectors and the success of the UN mission in eradicating WMDs from pre-invasion Iraq. Read more at the original source below: