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Were We Misled?

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Wednesday, February 15, 2006

The Bush Administration made the case for war in Iraq based mainly on the contention that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Three years later, the war continues, and there’s still no sign of WMDs. Did the administration get the intelligence wrong, or was America deliberately misled? Vanity Fair columnist Christopher Hitchens, former Senator Bob Graham, Nation writer David Corn, and legal scholar Ruth Wedgwood examine the question at the Society for Ethical Culture. Plus: listener calls on the debate.

Were We Misled? A Debate on Pre-War Intelligence

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