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http://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/10/opinion/10KRUG.html

The Bush and Blair administrations are trying to silence critics - many of 
them current or former intelligence analysts - who say that they 
exaggerated the threat from Iraq. Last week a Blair official accused 
Britain's intelligence agencies of plotting against the government. (Tony 
Blair's government has since apologized for January's "dodgy dossier.") In 
this country, Colin Powell has declared that questions about the 
justification for war are "outrageous."

Yet dishonest salesmanship has been the hallmark of the Bush 
administration's approach to domestic policy. And it has become 
increasingly clear that the selling of the war with Iraq was no different.

For example, look at the way the administration rhetorically linked Saddam 
to Sept. 11. As The Associated Press put it: "The implication from Bush on 
down was that Saddam supported Osama bin Laden's network. Iraq and the 
Sept. 11 attacks frequently were mentioned in the same sentence, even 
though officials have no good evidence of such a link."

Or look at the affair of the infamous "germ warfare" trailers. I don't know 
whether those trailers were intended to produce bioweapons or merely to 
inflate balloons, as the Iraqis claim - a claim supported by a number of 
outside experts.