Ex-CIA Analyst blasts Bush Adminstration's "campaign of manipulation" to justify Iraq war.

A former Middle East specialist of the US Central Intelligence Agency has condemned what he called an organised campaign of manipulation by the Bush administration to justify the Iraq war.

Paul Pillar, a former CIA analyst specialising in counter-terrorism in the Middle East and Asia, said in an interview with the Spanish newspaper El Pais that the United States had particularly wanted to prove a link between Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein.

"That was not the case," he was quoted as saying. "I suppose by some definitions that could be called a lie."

"There was an organised campaign of manipulation," El Pais also quoted Pillar as saying. "That would be the proper way to define it."

The decision to invade Iraq was taken as early as the beginning of 2002, a year before hostilities began, Pillar said.

I am going to continue to post every new revelation about the manipulations by this corrupt administration until every person in this country finally knows they were lied to by this President and that their children are being sacrificed for reasons that have nothing to do with our security.

I know it is hard for many people to believe but the more we learn the less doubt remains.