By David Corn in Mother Jones
On “Hardball,” Michael Morell concedes the Bush administration misled the nation into the Iraq War.
For a dozen years, the Bush-Cheney crowd have been trying to escape—or cover up—an essential fact of the W. years: President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, and their lieutenants misled the American public about the WMD threat supposedly posed by Saddam Hussein in order to grease the way to the invasion of Iraq. For Bush, Cheney, and the rest, this endeavor is fundamental; it is necessary to protect the legitimacy of the Bush II presidency. Naturally, Karl Rove and other Bushies have quickly tried to douse the Bush-lied-us-into-war fire whenever such flames have appeared. And in recent days, as Jeb Bush bumbled a question about the Iraq War, he and other GOPers have peddled the fictitious tale that his brother launched the invasion because he was presented lousy intelligence. But now there’s a new witness who will make the Bush apologists’ mission even more impossible: Michael Morell, a longtime CIA official who eventually became the agency’s deputy director and acting director. During the preinvasion period, he served as Bush’s intelligence briefer.
Appearing on MSNBC’s Hardball on Tuesday night, Morell made it clear: The Bush-Cheney administration publicly misrepresented the intelligence related to Iraq’s supposed WMD program and Saddam’s alleged links to Al Qaeda.
Host Chris Matthews asked Morell about a statement Cheney made in 2003: “We know he [Saddam Hussein] has been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons. And we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.” Here’s the conversation that followed:
MATTHEWS: Was that true?
MORELL: We were saying—
MATTHEWS: Can you answer that question? Was that true?
MORELL: That’s not true.
MATTHEWS: Well, why’d you let them get away with it?
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The Progressive Democrat 
It’s election time again. So, naturally, conservatives are busy trying to rewrite world history and are creating absurd narrative fictions about Benghazi and President Obama’s imagined foreign policy failures. But never mind that it was the neoconservatives’ foreign policy ideas that created much of the chaos that we see in the Middle East today. And isn’t it predictable that they would try to change that narrative? It’s what they like to do. They blamed Obama for the collapse of the American economy that their policies created. Why not blame the terrible consequences of their foreign policy decisions on Obama too? But the problem that conservatives have is the same today as it was eight years ago, as it was yesterday, and as it was the day before that: the cold, hard, inescapable facts simply don’t support their attempts to rewrite history.
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