Pre-Invasion Neocon Propaganda
Intro: The Pentagon has confirmed in a report that Saddam Hussein did not have links with Al Qaeda, one of the principal arguments of President George Bush for invading Iraq in 2003.
There were no links between ex-Iraqi president Saddam Hussein and the Al Qaeda terror network according to a Pentagon inspector general report released this Friday. The alleged links between Hussein and Al Qaeda were one of the key arguments to justify President Bush’s invasion of Iraq in 2003. The war was launched on the basis of manipulated information according to the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy in Washington, whose director Grant Smith speaks to reporter Luis Eduardo Arizalde:
Grant Smith: “It is perfectly clear that the groups pushing the Iraq-Al Qaeda case, presented false information through different news media, and most importantly spokespersons such as Richard Perle, appeared constantly in all of the US news programs in 2001 and 2002 presenting the case for war, They had a lot of success propagating false information, and until now, none of these people have paid any price, in terms of criminal prosecutions. There are laws on the books in this country (the USA) against wire fraud, or rather, the dissemination of false information, but nobody has yet paid any price for this massive disinformation campaign.”
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