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  • Were We Misled
    "Were We Misled?" a live forum at the Society for Ethical Culture. (WNYC.org/Bill Swersey)

    Were We Misled?

    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)
and
Bob Graham, former US Senator (D-FL) and former Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee
and
David Corn, Washington editor of The Nation and author, The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception (Crown, 2003)
and
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
- debate the question of whether the administration misled the public, or simply got pre-war intelligence wrong?

» suggested readings on pre-war intelligence

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