Sleep Well, Thomas; It Was a Pack of Lies - Ex-CIA Ray McGovern

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http://www.buzzflash.com/contributors/03/08/12_lies.html

War is scary enough; so it is comforting to be able to allay friends’ unwarranted fears.

My friend Thomas has been plagued for months by nightmares in which al-Qaeda terrorists brandish weapons of mass destruction -- the kind described in such rich detail by Secretary of State Colin Powell on Feb. 5 at the UN.

Thomas’ trauma is traced to what he insists is the only logical conclusion to be drawn from "the facts" and from a simple process of elimination:

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"No way," my friend insists, "No way can we escape the supreme irony that attacking Iraq has brought about the very thing it was supposed to prevent."

But wait, Thomas. Double-check your major premise. Four and half months of futile searching have demonstrated that there were not/are not any "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq.