by Molly Ivins

AlterNet

07/22/04

The CIA was wrong, but it wasn't wrong enough for the White House, which kept pushing the spies to be much wronger. The CIA's lack of sufficient wrongness was so troubling .... The neo-cons even set up their very own little intelligence shop in the Pentagon to push us into this folly in Iraq. This brings us to the second talking point last week. Iraq never happened. I swear to you, this war and its disastrous aftermath never happened is the new official line. Down the memory hole. Never happened. You dreamed the whole thing. Iraq is now like Ken Lay and Chalabi. They never heard of it. Only met it once. Besides, Iraq contributed to their opponents...

http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/19310/


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