Powell Aide Says Case for War a 'Hoax'

PBS recently aired an interview with Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson (Ret), Chief of Staff at the Department of State from Aug 2002 - January 2005, addressing some of the skepticism surrounding the pre-war claims made by the Bush administration. Wilkerson claims in no uncertain terms that he "participated in a hoax on the American people, the international community and the United Nations Security Council." This is not the first time that Wilkerson has spoken out against the administration and intelligence community.

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Orson Welles, take a back seat

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At least Franklin D. Roosevelt didn't declare war on Mars.

Re:Fourth estate?

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It's too bad that there are no news organizations left that do any kind of investigative reporting. It would be nice to have this guy's claims analyzed by a third party.

You can't possibly be serious. The conservative-hating members of the media such as the New York Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times, ABC, NBC, CBS, etc. ad nauseum would be all over this story if there were something to it. The fact they aren't speaks volumes about the story's credibility.

Face it, nutty conspiracy theories don't wash with normal people. Only on sites like Dailykos, DU, and Slashdot are such tales lapped up.

Here an inconvenient question for the tinfoil hat crowd: if the Bush administration lied, then didn't all the major governments of Europe, and many Clinton administation officials, all of whom said Saddam had WMDs and posed a threat?

(Actually, Saddam may in fact have had WMDs which were moved to Syria right before the war, at least according to the #2 man in the Iraqi Air Force. Not enough evidence to say yet.)

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