By PAULA M. DAVIS, Kalamazoo Gazette
A retired CIA intelligence analyst told a Western Michigan University audience Monday that deliberately fabricated intelligence pushed the United States into invading Iraq.
Ray McGovern puts blame for what he called an unnecessary war on an executive branch focused on oil and Israel, on corporate-controlled media that don’t probe, and on lawmakers overly interested in their own political survival.
“The Bush regime came into office determined to have what they called regime change in Baghdad,” McGovern said.
It’s up to American citizens to agitate for change — even to the point of pressing lawmakers to pursue impeaching the president and vice president, said McGovern, who retired after 27 years in the CIA, serving administrations from John F. Kennedy’s to George H.W. Bush’s.
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