Why is the questioned being asked when it has already happened blatantly before and few journalists did anything about it? Has Boing Boing already forgotten the nonexistent weapons of mass destruction promoted by the Bush administration? That was an outright lie that was constantly reinforced by the White House press secretary, Sec. Cheney and Bush:
Via the Intercept: There’s no question that the Bush administration lied enthusiastically about what it knew about Iraq and WMD.
Examples:
"*Former Vice President Dick Cheney kicked off the push for war in August 2002 by claiming: “There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to use against our friends, against our allies, and against us.
*The Bush administration said that aluminum tubes Iraq had tried to import were “only really suited for nuclear weapons programs” — even as Bush himself was being told the State Department and Energy Department believed (correctly, of course) they were intended to be used as conventional rockets.
*Bush declared in his 2003 State of the Union address that “Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa,” even though his administration had been repeatedly warned this was dubious (and it turned out to originate with crudely forged documents).
*Colin Powell doctored intercepted Iraqi communications for his U.N. presentation to make them appear more alarming."
