Tag: War Lies

MTG Is a War Profiteer as Well as a Moron

Buck Banks

$15,000

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) purchased as much as $15,000 worth of stock in military contractor Lockheed Martin two days before Russia invaded Ukraine, Insider reports. Greene has repeatedly blamed profit-seeking private companies for exacerbating violent conflicts, even tweeting just after the invasion began: “War is big business to our leaders.”

Bush’s CIA Briefer: Cheney and Bush Lied about Iraq Nukes

Jon Ponder
Mike Morell, the CIA officer who briefed George W. Bush on intelligence, during his appearance on MSNBC's "Hardball"
Mike Morell, the CIA officer who briefed George W. Bush on intelligence, during his appearance on MSNBC’s “Hardball”

Why did George Bush and Dick Cheney invade Iraq? Their foundational rationale for the invasion was to prevent Saddam Hussein from using nuclear weapons they claimed he had. Based on what we know now, of course, those claims were either lies or they were based on faulty intelligence. Republicans are desperate to assert it was the latter — that Bush and Cheney were merely incompetent and relied on bad data — because if the former were true, if Bush and Cheney knowing lied about their rationale for taking the country to war, they were guilty of a massive war crime and, by all rights, should be sitting the Hague today.

Earlier this week, Mike Morell, the CIA officer who served as George Bush’s chief intelligence briefer, confirmed that the claims by Bush, Cheney and others that Saddam Hussein had nuclear weapons were lies.

Video and transcript follow…

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