Below is an excerpt of Smith’s 2003 Harpers article, retelling the early stages of the Iraq war, composed entirely of public statements from the Bush administration — All of them, FALSE!
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We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories. And we found more weapons as time went on. I never believed that we’d just tumble over weapons of mass destruction in that country. But for those who said we hadn’t found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they were wrong, we found them. We knew where they were.
We changed the regime of Iraq for the good of the Iraqi people. We didn’t want to occupy Iraq. War is a terrible thing. We’ve tried every other means to achieve objectives without a war because we understood what the price of a war can be and what it is. We sought peace. We strove for peace. Nobody, but nobody, was more reluctant to go to war than President Bush…
Read More–> A history of the Iraq war, told entirely in lies by: Sam Smith, Harpers, October 2003
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