Monday marks the 20th anniversary of the start of the 2003 Iraq War, and naturally noted war critic Joy Reid discussed the matter on Monday’s episode of her MSNBC show.
And Reid didn’t mince words, and at one point discussing the justification for the fraud deployed to win support for the war, he declared it one of the “greatest political crimes” ever committed by a United States presidential administration. Did.
“I mean, gitmo,” Reed said, referring to the prison the US government had built in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. to avoid constitutional protections for accused criminals“It was the global war on terror where we were allowed to open this gully.”
“They were torturing people there to try to get them to say that Iraq was involved,” Reed continued, implying that he was involved in the 9/11 attacks. “And they weren’t. We went to the extent of torturing people to try to get them to lie that somehow Saddam Hussein, who was a terrible human being, but he was not involved.
“And the way he entered Iraq by manipulating people’s anger and fear over 9/11, I still think is one of the greatest, political crimes and crimes of immorality to come from the presidential administration, Reid said.
A note: both before and after the start of the war in Iraq, several Bush administration officials claimed for years after 9/11 that there were links between Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda – these claims were obviously false, bush self finally accepted as much in 2006,
The primary justification for the invasion was the claim that Iraq was harboring weapons of mass destruction; those claims were not true,
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