Robert Scheer: After Thousands Died, Tenet Comes Clean

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THE three short sentences at the beginning of Chapter 17 of former CIA Director George Tenet's memoir, "At the Center of the Storm," tell it all: "The United States did not go to war in Iraq solely because of WMD. I doubt it was even the principal cause. Yet it was the public face that was put on it."

Consider the deep cynicism of that statement, playing as it does on the gravest threat to humanity's survival - an apocalyptic nuclear conflagration - to exploit the fears of a nation raw from the 9/11 attacks.

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Robert Scheer: After Thousands Died, Tenet Comes Clean

The "mushroom cloud" over Manhattan that now-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Vice President Dick Cheney warned against was nothing more than a cheap rhetorical trick to justify an agenda of imperial inter...

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