Although I am linking to that extremist web site Crooks and Liars, the story is actually from Newsweek. (C&L is a clearinghouse for news stories if the naysayers haven't figured that out yet)
Anyway, this kind of gives some insight as to how Cheney outflanked Condi Rice and even President Bush in the build up to the Iraq War, even though I still don't cut them much slack since they had the chance to make things right if they really had wanted to. This seems to prove a mini coup d'etat performed by Cheney and his cohorts in leading to the disastrous decision to invade Iraq.
A dying CIA operative spilled the beans prior to his death to this Newsweek reporter and since the agent has died, there is no reason to hold this back in the reporter's opinion. The sad thing is, reporters today like Fox's Megan Kelly still like to phrase their Iraq War questions with the caveat, "If we knew then what we know today, (sh)would we still have invaded Iraq?" The problem is that even then (pre-Iraq War), we DID know that the intelligence leading us to war WAS bogus. I guess this is the latest attempt by the neocon warhawks to rewrite history by denying what was actually known at that time. So sad that so many millions of lives have been affected by Cheney's biggest lie, and he still walks free to this day, even while we still consider options to battle the genie he released from his bottle.
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/05/dick-cheneys-biggest-lie
Anyway, this kind of gives some insight as to how Cheney outflanked Condi Rice and even President Bush in the build up to the Iraq War, even though I still don't cut them much slack since they had the chance to make things right if they really had wanted to. This seems to prove a mini coup d'etat performed by Cheney and his cohorts in leading to the disastrous decision to invade Iraq.
A dying CIA operative spilled the beans prior to his death to this Newsweek reporter and since the agent has died, there is no reason to hold this back in the reporter's opinion. The sad thing is, reporters today like Fox's Megan Kelly still like to phrase their Iraq War questions with the caveat, "If we knew then what we know today, (sh)would we still have invaded Iraq?" The problem is that even then (pre-Iraq War), we DID know that the intelligence leading us to war WAS bogus. I guess this is the latest attempt by the neocon warhawks to rewrite history by denying what was actually known at that time. So sad that so many millions of lives have been affected by Cheney's biggest lie, and he still walks free to this day, even while we still consider options to battle the genie he released from his bottle.
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/05/dick-cheneys-biggest-lie