As Atrios maintains, the official Village myth is still job number one for the Secretary of Defense, even if he is a Democrat. Panetta:
BAGHDAD ? Defense Secretary Leon Panetta on Monday appeared to justify the U.S. invasion of Iraq as part of the war against al-Qaeda, an argument controversially made by the Bush administration but refuted by President Obama and many Democrats....?The reason you guys are here is because on 9/11 the United States got attacked,? Panetta told the troops. ?And 3,000 Americans ? 3,000 not just Americans, 3,000 human beings, innocent human beings ? got killed because of al-Qaeda. And we?ve been fighting as a result of that.?
His statement echoed previous comments made by President George W. Bush and members of his administration, who tried to tie Saddam Hussein?s government to al-Qaeda. But it put Panetta at odds with President Obama, the 9/11 Commission and other independent experts, who have said there is no evidence al-Qaeda had a presence in Iraq before the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
Granted, telling troops who are still risking their lives in Iraq that they are still there based on a big fat lie, a war of choice that had nothing to do with the 9/11 attacks by al Qaeda, which had nothing whatsoever to do with Iraq, wouldn't do anything to help what is undoubtedly already pretty shitty morale.
But he didn't have to go with the big Bush lie.
Source: http://feeds.dailykos.com/~r/dailykos/index/~3/-tcUW_erbR8/-Panetta:-Were-in-Iraq-because-of9-11
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