Political Cortex: A Fraudulent War?

A Fraudulent War?

By Bob Kendall
04/09/2006 08:45:59 PM EST

Joseph Wilson in his ABC interview with George Stephanopoulos on April 9 had this to say to George Bush regarding the White House leak of his wife's name, placing her in danger, "The White House should come clean on this matter." He continued, "My own view is that the White House owes the American people and particularly our service people who have been sent into war an apology for having misrepresented the facts."

But in reading the Seattle Times on March 29 we can understand why Bush found Joseph Wilson's research something to suppress! Four months before the State of the Union Address the White House and the U.S. Senate were informed there was nothing to the fear propaganda that Iraq was seeking yellow cake uranium in Niger.

Intelligence was being twisted in George Bush's rush into the Iraq War. In the March 29, 2006 Seattle Times it was revealed, "A confidential memo recording a January 31, 2003 oval office meeting between President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair makes it clear that the two men were going to war in any event."

British author Philippe Sands mentions this memo in his newly released book, Lawless World. The Seattle Times article states further, "According to the memo written by Blair's chief foreign policy adviser David Manning, Bush was determined to invade Iraq without explicit U.N. sanctions even if inspectors failed to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq."

How ironic that when Bush's father acted as president of the U.S.A. we were sending Iraq a vast array of weapons that were used to kill Iranians and Kurds. Now that same president's son launched a war on Iraq claiming we were being threatened by weapons that may have been sent in a prior Bush administration.

Even more ironic, now we know there were no weapons of mass destruction threatening the U.S.A.! The Iraq War was a war of choice, George Bush's choice, a fraudulent war!

Isn't this more than enough to provide grounds for impeachment? Isn't conducting a war without legal cause enough to give George Bush a one-way ticket to the International Court of Justice in The Hague?