Joshua Frank
Recall those
feverish days leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq when Colin Powell
presented his dubious evidence to the United Nations Security Council, claiming
Saddam Hussein possessed WMDs. The result of those bogus lies was The Iraq
Resolution, which authorized the use of force against the sovereign state, and
passed the Senate by a decisive 77-23 margin, with only 23 dissenting votes.
Support crossed party lines as Hillary Clinton and many other prominent
Democrats consistently reached into George W. Bush’s basket of lies, repeating
the neocons’ WMD propaganda. The New York Times, fulfilling its usual
perfunctory role, ran Judith Miller’s series of bogus articles parroting the
same falsehoods. Outrage grew, and we took to the streets as the U.S. invasion
loomed.
