What else needs to be brought to light for us to realise the Iraq War was a calculated and predetermined conflict the Bush Administration manufactured in order to expand executive authority and funnel taxpayer dollars to their business interests? The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee released on Thursday the "Phase II" report which took further the conclusions of the previous report which said the intelligence that Administration officials cited as a reason to invade and conduct an unprovoked war with Iraq was false. Official story here.
The "Phase II" Report found that the public statements of White House officials (Bush, Cheney, Colin Powell, and Donald Rumsfeld mainly) during the march to violence were purposefully, not mistakenly, misleading to overstate the national security threat Saddam Hussein's Iraq posed. So they did lie. They weren't innocently wrong about everything they said. They lied. Our President, Vice President, Secretary of Defense, and Secretary of State all lied so that they could start a war with a phantom threat they could then give a vague unending purpose.
Some Republican Senators agreed and supported the findings while others called them "partisan". The search for truth is a partisan one and reality has a liberal bias, right? I'm trying to remember when we in this nation believed in laws and obeyed them willingly. Today's GOP doesn't operate on that plain anymore apparently.
I'm not well-read on the procedures regarding treason prosecution, but I'd venture a guess that an Attorney General appointed by a President Obama would be very well-read in that regard.
