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Declassified Memo Proves Pentagon Lied About WMDs In Iraq

A bombshell admission from a leaked classified Pentagon report proves that the U.S. government knowingly lied about claims that Saddam Hussain had weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) in Iraq, in order to justify invading Iraq in 2003.  George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld carried out the globalist agenda of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC), which required America to go to war in Iraq, using fear propaganda on the public about non-existent WMDs. Thefreethoughtproject.com reports: While Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and others were proclaiming their certainty about the imminent threats posed to the U.S. by Saddam’s Iraq, the leaked documents reveal that they knew almost nothing about any actual weapons or capabilities. On August 16, 2002, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld asked Air Force Maj. Gen. Glen Shaffer, head of the Joint Staff’s intelligence directorate, for a report on “what we don’t know (in a percentage) about the Iraqi WMD program.” The findings, titled Iraq: Status of WMD Programs, were underscored by this statement: “Our assessments rely heavily on analytic assumptions and judgment rather than hard evidence. The evidentiary base is particularly sparse for Iraqi nuclear programs.” Regarding the actual programs, it says: “We’ve struggled to estimate the unknowns. … We [...]