{"id":16997,"date":"2016-01-27T13:15:18","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T18:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16997"},"modified":"2016-01-27T13:15:32","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T18:15:32","slug":"the-iraq-wars-known-unknowns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=16997","title":{"rendered":"The Iraq War\u2019s Known Unknowns"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Iraq War\u2019s Known Unknowns<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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Exclusive:<\/strong>\u00a0In September 2002,\u00a0as the Bush-43 administration was rolling out its ad campaign for invading Iraq because of\u00a0alleged WMD, the Joint Chiefs of Staff received a briefing about the paucity of WMD evidence. But the report was shelved and the war went on, as ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern explains.<\/p>\n

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There is a lot more than meets the eye in the newly revealed Joint Chiefs of Staff intelligence briefing of Sept. 5, 2002, which showed there was a lack of evidence that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction (WMD) \u2013 just as President George W. Bush\u2019s administration was launching its sales job for the Iraq War.<\/p>\n

The briefing report and its quick demise amount to an indictment not only of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld but also of Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Richard Myers, who is exposed once again as a Rumsfeld patsy who put politics ahead of his responsibility to American soldiers and to the nation as a whole.<\/p>\n

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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld at a press briefing with Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Richard Myers. (State Department photo)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

In a Jan. 24\u00a0report<\/u><\/a>\u00a0at Politico entitled \u201cWhat Donald Rumsfeld Knew We Didn\u2019t Know About Iraq,\u201d journalist John Walcott presents a wealth of detail about the JCS intelligence report of Sept. 5, 2002, offering additional corroboration that the Bush administration lied to the American people about the evidence of WMD in Iraq.<\/p>\n

The JCS briefing noted, for example: \u201cOur knowledge of the Iraqi (nuclear) weapons program is based largely \u2013 perhaps 90% \u2013 on analysis of imprecise intelligence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Small wonder that the briefing report was dead on arrival in Rumsfeld\u2019s in-box. After all, it proved that the intelligence evidence justifying war was, in Rumsfeldian terms, a \u201cknown unknown.\u201d<\/p>\n

…click on the above link to read the rest of the article…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Iraq War\u2019s Known Unknowns Exclusive:\u00a0In September 2002,\u00a0as the Bush-43 administration was rolling out its ad campaign for invading Iraq because of\u00a0alleged WMD, the Joint Chiefs of Staff received a briefing about the paucity of WMD evidence. But the report was shelved and the war went on, as ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern explains. There is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8638,442,12006,7000,4176],"class_list":["post-16997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-donald-rumsfeld","tag-iraq","tag-john-walcott","tag-ray-mcgovern","tag-wmd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16997"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16999,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16997\/revisions\/16999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}