[Marxism] Washington Post fabricates the news to justify the invasion of Iraq

[Marv Gandall]

Eli S. writes:

A major story in the Washington Post today begins with the following claim:

    Saddam Hussein told an FBI interviewer before he was hanged that he
allowed the world to believe he had weapons of mass destruction because he
was worried about appearing weak to Iran, according to declassified accounts
of the interviews released yesterday.

This (not the FBI interview, obviously, but the claim itself) was one of the
major pieces of "evidence" used to justify the invasion of Iraq at the time,
so its repetition now, from the mouth of Saddam Hussein no less, would be an
important post-facto justification for the invasion.

[...]

And, guess what? No such statement from Saddam Hussein appears in the
interviews, which are all online at the National Security Archive at George
Washington University.
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Good debunking job.

Actually, the New York Daily News broke the story last week, but it did not
spin it the way the Post did and was not as widely picked up by the MSM.

See:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/06/24/2009-06-24_former_iraqi_leader_saddam_hussein_feared_iran_more_than_us_secret_fbi_files_sho.html

The News reported that "asked about WMDs, Saddam insisted:We destroyed them.
We told you."

He told this to George Piro, the FBI agent who interrogated him and whose
reports form the basis of the recently declassified documents on which the
news accounts are based. You've very correctly noted that he never claimed
that "he wanted the world to think he had WMD's", as reported by the Post.