US Senate leader says weapons of mass destruction not main cause of Iraq war

The Republican leader in the Senate said that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was not the main justification for the US-led invasion of Iraq.

"I'm not sure that's the major reason we went to war," Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist told NBC television's Today Show....

--AFP/Yahoo News

At least in 1984, when they announced that Oceania had always been at war with Eastasia, they ordered rewrites of all the stories that said Oceania was at war with Eurasia. The current GOP crew doesn't even bother covering its tracks that way. Billmon at Whiskey Bar reminds us here of what Frist said about Iraqi weapons in the not-so-distant past.