New US Defense Minister Starts With A Lie

Former CIA chief and new US secretary of defense Leon Panetta began his new job with a lie.

On Monday, he visited US troops in Baghdad

There, Mr. Panetta told them the United States invaded Iraq because of 9/11.

This is the same blatant lie that George W. And Donald Rumsfeld tried to sell the Americans nine years ago.

The CIA at the time ran fake stories in major American newspapers about Iraqi WMD weapons and secret meetings between Saddam's spies and the perpetrators of 9/11.

It was one big lie that almost all the major US news outlets published and promoted at CIA prodding and without any fact-checking.

And now, nine years later, we have an ex CIA director using the same lie again, just 11 days into his new job.