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June
23, 2003
Washington Lied
An Interview
with Ray McGovern
By
MARC PRITZKE
Editors' Note: Former CIA official, Ray McGovern, has leveled
serious accusations at the Bush administration in connection
with the war in Iraq. McGovern served as a CIA analyst for almost
30 years. From 1981 to 1985 he conducted daily briefings for
Ronald Reagan's vice president, George Bush, the father of the
incumbent president. The following interview originally appeared
in Die Tagesspiegel, one of Berlin's largest daily papers. Imagine
this appearing in the Sunday edition of the New York Times.
The US Senate Intelligence Committee
this week began hearings on the dispute over the search for weapons
of mass destruction in Iraq. What do you expect will come of
this?
Nothing. The committee chairman, Republican
Pat Roberts, has already refused to ask the FBI to investigate
allegations that Iraq has tried to obtain uranium from Niger.
This, despite the fact that in making these allegations, administration
officials knowingly relied on crudely forged documents.
In a Memorandum for President Bush
dated May 1 you speak of a "policy and intelligence fiasco."
What do mean by that?
Take, for example, the business about
the aluminum tubes that Iraq tried to obtain. According to National
Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, these were "only suited
to nuclear weapons programs." But nuclear engineers have
been virtually unanimous in deciding that the pipes are not suitable
for that. Despite this, President Bush on October 7, 2002 said
that Iraq could possibly produce a nuclear weapon within a year.
These are deliberate distortions. Lies.
When a US president decides it is necessary to go to war, he
has to procure intelligence to prove the need for war.
And what happens, in your experience,
if the "proof" is too thin?
In that case it gets inflated. So, for
example, an incident in the Tonkin Gulf involving a North Vietnamese
"attack" on a US warship--which "attack"
never took place--nonetheless was deliberately used by President
Johnson to get Congress' endorsement for war with North Vietnam.
This current administration had decided
by September 2002 to make war on Iraq--five months before Secretary
of State Colin Powell's speech at the UN. What was missing was
the intelligence basis to justify the decision for war.
But the intelligence is still not conclusive.
And in the case of the uranium Iraq was said to be seeking, it
was based on forged documents.
That didn't make any difference. In retrospect,
the train of thought in the White House at the time is clear:
How long can we keep the forged documents from the public? A
few months? In that case we can use the documents to get Congress
to endorse war with Iraq and then wage it and win it before anyone
discovers that the "evidence" was bogus.
In addition, the administration has very
artfully taken advantage of the trauma of September 11. So, for
example, al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein were always mentioned in
the same breath, without any proof of a connection between the
two.
Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels
said that, if you repeat something often enough, the people will
believe it. On October 7, 2002 Bush said, without any evidence
to support it, that what is to be feared is that in Iraq's case,
the "smoking gun" could come in the form of a "mushroom
cloud." National Security Adviser Rice repeated this on
October 8, and Pentagon spokesperson Victoria Clarke did so on
October 9. On October 11 Congress voted for war.
And no one saw through this?
This is largely the fault of US mainstream
media. No one told the people what was really going on.
But doesn't the US press have a reputation
for good investigative reporting?
It did once. But that reputation goes
back 30 years to the time of Vietnam and Watergate. The investigative
reporting of those days is a thing of the past. The mainstream
press now marches to the drumbeat of the administration.
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