IRAQ

Sojourners: The Burden of Truth

Two former CIA analysts talk about the lies behind the Iraq war and the heavy weight of conscience.

"It's the first time that I've seen such a long-term, orchestrated plan of deception by
which one branch of our government deliberately misled the other on a
matter of war and peace. Here was a very calculated plan, proceeding
from a 'Mein Kampf' type of document... The first objective was to deceive
Congress into approving the plans. They succeeded masterfully. They had
their war, and they thought that in the wake of the war, with Iraqis
opening their arms to us, no one would really care whether there were,
in fact, weapons of mass destruction. They were absolutely wrong on that.
People do care, as one by one our servicemen and women are killed in a
war fought on false pretences."