The Intercept
•US Politics
US Politics
63% Informative
Frida Ghitis: George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin are the 21st century’s premier war criminals.
She says the U.S. spent at least $3 trillion on the war and the CIA put down $1 billion just to figure out that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction.
Ghitis says we have no idea how many Iraqis have died thanks to the war.
John Avlon: Secretary of State Powell lied about My Lai massacre in Vietnam and Iran-Contra scandal.
Avlon says Bolton played a key role in the Bush administration’s WMD lies by pushing out the head of the OPCW.
He says Bolton was rewarded for this by being named national security adviser by President Trump.
Author: The invasion of Iraq will be remembered as profound act of morality of morality.
Jeffrey Goldberg is now the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic.
Jeffrey Miller wrote or co-wrote many of the credulous New York Times articles warning readers of the terrifying threat of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction.
Miller is one of the only people on this list to ever suffer any career damage over Iraq.
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