The White House's latest line is that it's the CIA's fault that we're at war in Iraq. Before the fog of propaganda along that line gets too thick, it's worth recalling other influences. Such as Richard "Prince of Darkness" Perle of the Defense Policy Board, one of Rumsfeld's key advisers at the Pentagon.
War, Whatever Daily Mirror (UK) 11/20/02 (The link shows the current day's date, but it's actually from Nov. 20, 2002)
GEORGE Bush's top security adviser last night admitted the US would attack Iraq even if UN inspectors fail to find weapons.
Dr Richard Perle stunned MPs by insisting a "clean bill of health" from UN chief weapons inspector Hans Blix would not halt America's war machine.
Evidence from ONE witness on Saddam Hussein's weapons programme will be enough to trigger a fresh military onslaught, he told an all- party meeting on global security. ...
Dr Perle told MPs: "I cannot see how Hans Blix can state more than he can know. All he can know is the results of his own investigations. And that does not prove Saddam does not have weapons of mass destruction."
And this was good enough for the blowhard Republican war fans to go to war with Iraq. Perle also sat on the Pentagon's Special Plans Office headed by fellow neoconserative ideologue Douglas Feith, which was a key body in promoting the cooked version of intelligence that was already over-pessimistic about Iraq's WMDs.
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