Connecting the dots...Were we misled?

New evidence and allegations have raised once again the question of how the President and his closest and most powerful officials handled and presented the pre-war intelligence in making the case for war with Iraq.

Were we misled?

For an excellent discussion of this question, check out this program aired by WNYC earlier this week on the Brian Lehrer program:

Were We Misled? A Debate on Pre-War Intelligence

Panelists:

Christopher Hitchens, columnist for Vanity Fair and author of more than ten books, including, A Long Short War: The Postponed Liberation of Iraq (Plume, 2003);

Bob Graham, former US Senator (D-FL) and former Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee;

David Corn, Washington editor of The Nation and author, The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception (Crown, 2003);

Ruth Wedgwood, professor of international law at Johns Hopkins University, member of the Pentagon’s Defense Policy Board, and former member of the committee for the liberation of Iraq

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