16 Articles That Expose How They Lied Us Into War in Iraq

A list by Scott Horton for the anniversary of the start of the Iraq War

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These are the articles Scott subsequently tweeted.

Raw Story: Path of War Timeline

The Path of War Timeline - By Larisa Alexandrovna and Muriel Kane, Raw Story Section Date Description 1999-2001 January…

www.rawstory.com

Selective Intelligence - The New Yorker

They call themselves, self-mockingly, the Cabal-a small cluster of policy advisers and analysts now based in the…

www.newyorker.com

The Stovepipe - The New Yorker

Since midsummer, the Senate Intelligence Committee has been attempting to solve the biggest mystery of the Iraq war…

www.newyorker.com

The Lie Factory

It's a crisp fall day in western Virginia, a hundred miles from Washington, D.C., and a breeze is rustling the red and…

www.motherjones.com

In Rumsfeld's Shop

Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski recently retired from the U.S. Air Force. Her final posting was as an analyst at the…

www.theamericanconservative.com

Conscientious Objector

By the end of the summer of 2002, our Near East South Asia (NESA) office spaces were beginning to get crowded. Several…

www.theamericanconservative.com

Open Door Policy

Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, a former Pentagon insider, concludes her observations on the run-up to the Iraq war in this…

www.theamericanconservative.com

The new Pentagon papers

In July of last year, after just over 20 years of service, I retired as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force. I…

www.salon.com

How Ahmed Chalabi conned the neocons

The hawks who launched the Iraq war believed the deal-making exile when he promised to build a secular democracy with…

www.salon.com

Special investigation: The spies who pushed for war on Iraq

It represents the Bush administration's second catastrophic intelligence failure. But the CIA and FBI's inability to…

www.theguardian.com

Agents of Influence

Did Ariel Sharon, the Prime Minister of Israel, run a covert program with operatives in high-level US government…

www.thenation.com

CIA Probe Finds Secret Pentagon Group Manipulated Intelligence on Iraqi Threat, by Jason Leopold

half-dozen former CIA agents investigating prewar intelligence have found that a secret Pentagon committee, set up by…

www.antiwar.com

“Special” Pentagon Unit Skirted CIA on Iraq

Spy Unit Skirted CIA on Iraq By Greg Miller The Los Angeles Times Wednesday 10 March 2004 Pentagon group's role in…

www.truth-out.org

Report: Abusive tactics used to seek Iraq-al Qaida link

The use of abusive interrogation - widely considered torture - as part of the Bush administration's quest for a…

www.mcclatchydc.com

"Practice to Deceive" by Joshua Micah Marshall

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www.washingtonmonthly.com

Later additions:

US: Lockheed Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

by Richard Cummings, Playboy.com January 16th, 2007 In November of 2002, Stephen J. Hadley, deputy national security…

scotthorton.org

How Neoconservatives Conquered Washington - and Launched a War, by Michael Lind

A merica's allies and enemies alike are baffled. What is going on in the United States? Who is making foreign policy…

www.antiwar.com

The Man Who Sold the War

The road to war in Iraq led through many unlikely places. One of them was a chic hotel nestled among the strip bars and…

www.commondreams.org

Also see this brand new one:

The CIA Just Declassified the Document That Supposedly Justified the Iraq Invasion | VICE News

Thirteen years ago, the intelligence community concluded in a 93-page classified document used to justify the invasion…

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16 Articles That Expose How They Lied Us Into War in Iraq

A list by Scott Horton for the anniversary of the start of the Iraq War

Raw Story: Path of War Timeline

The Path of War Timeline - By Larisa Alexandrovna and Muriel Kane, Raw Story Section Date Description 1999-2001 January…

Selective Intelligence - The New Yorker

They call themselves, self-mockingly, the Cabal-a small cluster of policy advisers and analysts now based in the…

The Stovepipe - The New Yorker

Since midsummer, the Senate Intelligence Committee has been attempting to solve the biggest mystery of the Iraq war…

The Lie Factory

It's a crisp fall day in western Virginia, a hundred miles from Washington, D.C., and a breeze is rustling the red and…

In Rumsfeld's Shop

Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski recently retired from the U.S. Air Force. Her final posting was as an analyst at the…

Conscientious Objector

By the end of the summer of 2002, our Near East South Asia (NESA) office spaces were beginning to get crowded. Several…

Open Door Policy

Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, a former Pentagon insider, concludes her observations on the run-up to the Iraq war in this…

The new Pentagon papers

In July of last year, after just over 20 years of service, I retired as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force. I…

How Ahmed Chalabi conned the neocons

The hawks who launched the Iraq war believed the deal-making exile when he promised to build a secular democracy with…

Special investigation: The spies who pushed for war on Iraq

It represents the Bush administration's second catastrophic intelligence failure. But the CIA and FBI's inability to…

Agents of Influence

Did Ariel Sharon, the Prime Minister of Israel, run a covert program with operatives in high-level US government…

CIA Probe Finds Secret Pentagon Group Manipulated Intelligence on Iraqi Threat, by Jason Leopold

half-dozen former CIA agents investigating prewar intelligence have found that a secret Pentagon committee, set up by…

“Special” Pentagon Unit Skirted CIA on Iraq

Spy Unit Skirted CIA on Iraq By Greg Miller The Los Angeles Times Wednesday 10 March 2004 Pentagon group's role in…

Report: Abusive tactics used to seek Iraq-al Qaida link

The use of abusive interrogation - widely considered torture - as part of the Bush administration's quest for a…

"Practice to Deceive" by Joshua Micah Marshall

The Washington Monthly: \

US: Lockheed Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

by Richard Cummings, Playboy.com January 16th, 2007 In November of 2002, Stephen J. Hadley, deputy national security…

How Neoconservatives Conquered Washington - and Launched a War, by Michael Lind

A merica's allies and enemies alike are baffled. What is going on in the United States? Who is making foreign policy…

The Man Who Sold the War

The road to war in Iraq led through many unlikely places. One of them was a chic hotel nestled among the strip bars and…

The CIA Just Declassified the Document That Supposedly Justified the Iraq Invasion | VICE News

Thirteen years ago, the intelligence community concluded in a 93-page classified document used to justify the invasion…

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