Here are the most important sections from Rep. Waxman’s letter to President Bush:
“It appears that at the same time that you, Secretary Rumsfeld, and State Department officials were citing Iraq’s efforts to obtain uranium from Africa as a crucial part of the case against Iraq, U.S. intelligence sources regarded this very same evidence as unreliable.”
“If true, this is deeply disturbing: it would mean that your Administration asked the U.N. Security Council, the Congress, and the American people to rely on information your own experts knew was not credible.”
Please click on the link above to read the entire text of Rep. Waxman’s letter. He raises many important points ignored by the press. Because the press isn’t reporting the faked information used by Bush to start a war, the people aren’t aware of the critical facts.
Veterans for Common Sense will continue to raise questions about the causes and courses of the impending Second Gulf War.
If another war starts, VCS will continue to support our troops and our democracy 100{cd9ac3671b356cd86fdb96f1eda7eb3bb1367f54cff58cc36abbd73c33c82e1d} by providing a forum for all Americans to learn more about the Gulf War.