A Legacy of Lies

In a Mother Jones article that revisits the tale of Hussein Kamel, along with a host of other details, Seth Ackerman roots the war in Iraq to the Clintonite policies of the 1990s.

"Faced with the need to justify an economically devastating and internationally unpopular embargo of Iraq, the Clinton administration engaged in a pattern of stretching and distorting weapons data to bolster their claim that Saddam Hussein was still hiding an illicit arsenal," Ackerman explains. "The Clinton White House never used that 'intelligence' to push for an invasion of Iraq, as Bush so effectively did. But in its desperate quest to salvage a crumbling Iraq policy, the Clinton White House laid the groundwork for the deceptions of their successors."