Netanyahu Lied About Iraq's WMDs, Now He's Saying the Same Things About Iran

By: Sarah Jones more from Sarah Jones
Tuesday, February, 10th, 2015, 2:40 pm   
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Netanyahu has been saying the same things about Iran that he incorrectly said about Iraq in 2002 as he sold the Iraq war to the U.S. Congress. Republicans are trying to place Netanyahu in charge of U.S. foreign policy with Iran, which is the foreign policy equivalent of making Bush the president again.
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In 2012, Juan Cole went back to 2002 to point out that Netanyahu was saying the same inaccurate fear-mongering stuff about Iran that he said about Iraq.
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Here's what Netanyahu was saying then:
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"There is no question whatsoever that Saddam was seeking nuclear weapons," Netanyahu said, misleading Congress in 2002. He claimed Iraq had Centrifuges "the size of washing machines" to produce the A-bomb. And as Cole wrote, "He said that Israeli intelligence reported to him that Russian scientists and North Korea were on site and actively aiding this phantom nuclear weapons program."

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Sound familiar? Yeah, more deliberately distorted intelligence and rumor mongering and building a media case based on bread crumbs left by the frightened and the disingenuous.
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