I feel like I've been hiding under a rock for the last month, in that I totally missed this.
Apparently, I'm not alone -- there are people saying that the American media has intentionally under-reported the story.
For those, like me, who missed it: a memo leaked last month which is the minutes from a meeting of several high-level UK government officials (this document is now commonly referred to as the "Downing Street Memo").
In it, there are reports from officials who had just returned from meetings with the US government, and who claim that the US knew that they had poor justification for war, but had decided upon military action anyway and were fixing the evidence to fit their policy. I encourage you to read the memo yourself.
Here is one of several sites collecting information on the scandal.
I went back and looked, and it's clearly been under-reported here in the US. And the Bush administration is saying as little as possible about it. After the CBS and Newsweek debacles, they are probably hoping that the mainstream media is too afraid to report on it. Even though Newsweek has largely been vindicated in that FBI documents now show that the reports of Quran abuse at Guantanamo were real, and even though there is no official documentation of anyone flushing the Quran down a toilet, there is documentation of at least five real abuses of the Quran.
In recent days, the scandal has progressed... it seems that in the fall of 2002, the US and UK stepped up their bombings of Iraq in order to provoke Saddam Hussein into doing something that would justify a war. This happened before the US Congress voted to grant Bush military authority -- which would probably make it an unauthorized use of force.
If this is all true, it's grounds for impeachment. Of course, that's still an "if" because the media are not investigating, Congress is just now getting active, and the White House is saying nothing.
As much as I'd love to declare now that Bush is a lying, warmongering thug, frankly I'd just settle for a real investigation so we can all know the real facts. The citizens of the US and Iraq deserve to know what really happened.
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