{"id":30633,"date":"2018-02-07T18:36:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T23:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30633"},"modified":"2018-02-07T18:36:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T23:36:37","slug":"man-who-sold-america-the-iraq-war-just-warned-iran-is-next-but-is-anyone-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30633","title":{"rendered":"Man Who Sold America the Iraq War Just Warned Iran Is Next, but Is Anyone Listening?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Man Who Sold America the Iraq War Just Warned Iran Is Next, but Is Anyone Listening?<\/a><\/span><\/h3>\n
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(<\/b>ANTIMEDIA<\/b><\/a>)<\/b>\u00a0\u2014 Fifteen years after the calamitous U.S. invasion of Iraq, an architect of the propaganda used to drum up support for the war is warning that it\u2019s happening again \u2014 this time with Iran.<\/p>\n

Lawrence Wilkerson, who was\u00a0chief of staff<\/a>\u00a0to former Secretary of State Colin Powell, helped the then-secretary \u201cpaint a clear picture that war was the only choice<\/em>\u201d in his infamous 2003\u00a0speech<\/a>\u00a0to the U.N. This week, writing for the\u00a0New York Times \u2014<\/i>\u00a0an outlet that, at the time,\u00a0parroted<\/a>\u00a0misleading\u00a0narratives<\/a>\u00a0in support of the war \u2014 Wilkerson accused the Trump administration of manipulating evidence and fear-mongering in the same way the Bush administration did to cultivate public support for ousting Saddam Hussein.<\/p>\n

In his Monday\u00a0op-ed<\/a>, titled \u201c\u00a0I Helped Sell the False Choice of War Once. It\u2019s Happening Again,\u201d\u00a0he wrote:<\/p>\n

\u201cAs his chief of staff, I helped Secretary Powell paint a clear picture that\u00a0<\/i>war was the only choice<\/i><\/a>, that when \u2018we confront a regime that harbors ambitions for regional domination, hides weapons of mass destruction and provides haven and active support for terrorists, we are not confronting the past, we are confronting the present. And unless we act, we are confronting an even more frightening future.<\/i>\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Though the U.N. and much of the world didn\u2019t buy it, Wilkerson says Americans did, and it amounted to the culmination of a two-year effort by the Bush administration to initiate the war, which he now condemns.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat effort led to a war of choice with Iraq \u2014 one that resulted in catastrophic losses for the region and the United States-led coalition, and that destabilized the entire Middle East<\/i>,\u201d he wrote, going on to call out the Trump administration for pushing the United States down the same path in Iran.<\/p>\n

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Man Who Sold America the Iraq War Just Warned Iran Is Next, but Is Anyone Listening? (ANTIMEDIA)\u00a0\u2014 Fifteen years after the calamitous U.S. invasion of Iraq, an architect of the propaganda used to drum up support for the war is warning that it\u2019s happening again \u2014 this time with Iran. Lawrence Wilkerson, who was\u00a0chief of […]<\/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":[8350,12055,14274,441,442,6763,655,822,826,827],"class_list":["post-30633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-anti-media","tag-carey-wedler","tag-colin-powell","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-iraq-war","tag-propaganda","tag-un","tag-united-nations","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30633","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=30633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30634,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30633\/revisions\/30634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}