‘Iran Lies’ by David Swanson on davidswanson.org
Sunday Feb 12, 2007
Here’s the latest reason they must be telling the truth about Iran and the need for a new war: they lied about the last one. That’s right, according to the latest dispatch from the Associated Press,
“No one who has seen the files has suggested the evidence is thin. But senior officials-gun shy after the drubbing the administration took for the faulty intelligence leading to the 2003 Iraq invasion-were underwhelmed by the packaging.”
See? It’s just the “packaging.” They’ve got solid proof, and they’re even being extra careful in presenting it to us, because we were so hard on them last time. In fact, you can tell just how careful these senior officials are being from the fact that in all the articles in all the newspapers, so many of them (or is it all one guy?) are never identified by name.