White House's 'rush to war was reckless'

[jamiroguy1]

Top Iraq War Advocate: White House's 'Rush to War Was Reckless'

Kenneth Pollack, key supporter of regime change in Iraq, now says White House engaged in "creative omissions' about WMD.

By Tom Regan | csmonitor.com

It's the latest in a string of books, reports and articles that call into question the way the Bush administration presented pre-war evidence about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

Kenneth Pollack, a Clinton-era National Security Council member and strong supporter of regime change in Iraq (Mr. Pollack had presented his arguments in the much talked about book "The Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading Iraq") now says that he and many others were wrong about the nature of the threat Iraq posed. In an interview with the Atlantic Monthly , and in a new book ""Spies, Lies, and Weapons: What Went Wrong," Pollack says that, while the war was not a "strategic mistake," as the removal of Saddam Hussein's malignant influence from the region provided some good, the Bush administration's "justifications and explanations for war were at best faulty, at worst deliberately misleading."

His [Pollack's] most scathing criticism falls on the Bush Administration and, particularly, its tendency to misstate the facts of the case when trying to persuade the country to go to war. In his eyes, the Administration consistently engaged in "creative omission," overstating the imminence of the Iraqi threat, even though it had evidence to the contrary. "The President is responsible for serving the entire nation," Pollack writes. "Only the Administration has access to all the information available to various agencies of the US government – and withholding or downplaying some of that information for its own purposes is a betrayal of that responsibility."

Full Article

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0114/dailyUpdate.html?s=mets

Books by Kenneth Pollack

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0375509283/theatlanticmonthA/104-8499410-4938346

[pattbateman]

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[jamiroguy1]

Originally posted by pattbateman

so what??????

exactly.

[pattbateman]

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