*Ø* Blogmanac September | Britain and US inventing new excuses for invasion

"Britain and the US have combined to come up with entirely new explanations of why they went to war in Iraq as inspectors on the ground prepare to report that there are no weapons of mass destruction there.

"The 'current and serious' threat of Iraq's WMD was the reason Tony Blair gave for going to war, but last week the Prime Minister delivered a justification which did not mention the weapons at all. On the same day John Bolton, US Under-Secretary of State for arms control, said that whether Saddam Hussein's regime actually possessed WMD 'isn't really the issue'.

"The 1,400-strong Iraq Survey Group, sent out in May to begin an intensive hunt for the elusive weapons, is expected to report this week that it has found no WMD hardware, nor even any sign of active programmes ..."

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31 myths and lies in the 'War on Terrorism' and Iraq

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"I believe the lies were exposed by an Air Force Lt. Colonel named Karen Kwiatkowski, who worked in the Pentagon until her retirement last April. Kwiatkowski is one of many whistleblowing intelligence insiders who have come forward in the last months to expose the shoddy manner in which the Bush administration took us to war in Iraq. Kwiatkowski worked with the Office of Special Plans, the special unit formed by Defense Secretary Don Rumsfeld specifically to second-guess and manufacture 'proof' that Iraq was a threat. 'What I saw was aberrant, pervasive and contrary to good order and discipline,' Kwiatkowski wrote recently. 'If one is seeking the answers to why peculiar bits of "intelligence" found sanctity in a presidential speech, or why the post-Saddam occupation has been distinguished by confusion and false steps, one need look no further than the process inside the Office of the Secretary of Defense.' She described the activities of Rumsfeld's Office of Special Plans as, 'A subversion of constitutional limits on executive power and a co-optation through deceit of a large segment of the Congress.'"

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