Bush Manufactured Evidence

There's no doubt any more that Bush and his administration henchmen lied to get us into the Iraq war. They gave way too much credence to weak information, threw away or ignored facts they didn't like, and generally distorted the truth to convince Americans that Saddam was a danger to the United States.

But until recently, we had no idea just how far these war criminals would go to get what they wanted. We now learn that Bush not only lied, he invented and manufactured false information.

In his new book, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind tells us that shortly after the war began, Bush was worried about justifying his actions. So he called George Tenet, head of the CIA, and ordered him to forge a letter.

The letter was supposed to be from the head of Iraqi Intelligence to Saddam and was to be back-dated to July 1, 2001. The letter was to say that Mohammed Atta (9/11 ringleader) received his terrorist training in Iraq. Tenet took these orders back to his underlings at the CIA, and they created the fake letter.

The letter was used in 2003 to convince Americans that Saddam was tied to the acts of terrorism at the World Trade Center. The fake letter did its job. Even today, there are some people who think Saddam had ties to the 9/11 terrorists.

Of course, George Tenet says he doesn't remember anything about the letter, but the workers at the CIA under him certainly do. They say he ordered them to forge the letter, and that the request came "from the highest reaches of the White House".

I don't think there's any depth to which George Bush won't sink to get what he wants. If the lies don't work, then manufacture evidence to give them credence. Bush should be impeached, so future presidents will know they cannot do this.

And over 4,000 Americans have died because of Bush's lies.