Newscasters speculate on whether intelligence reports about WMDs were inaccurate, exaggerated or embellished. But one story, about Iraq seeking uranium from Niger, was known to be a fabrication months before President Bush told it to Congress and the American people, and had it presented to the U.N.

The CIA informed the White House, but our leaders used it anyway. They lied in order to drag us into a war.

People like this should not be leading anything, especially our country.

During the buildup to this resource-grabbing imperial war in Iraq, I was distressed that the American people would go along with such a travesty. Well, the fact is – they wouldn’t!

Now I realize what the president knew all along: the only way to get the people to accept this “little adventure” was to fill them with fear of terrorism, convince them of a non-existent Iraqi connection, lie about the danger and lie about the purpose of the war.

And for what reason, other than hanky-panky, would our appointed leaders not want U.N. arms inspectors in Iraq. Our people are over there, killing and dying, but we find no al-Qaida connection and no weapons of mass destruction.

I’m hoping that, when given a chance, Americans will decide they’ve had more than enough of imperial arrogance, greed and lies, will abandon their lethargy and go out and vote their values, not their manipulated fears.

Kevin A. Simpson, Auburn

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