Beyond Treason

Here is a portion of the transcript of the Anderson 360 show on CNN, aired May 4, 2006. Anderson was interviewing RAY MCGOVERN, FORMER CIA ANALYST, who had recently exposed Rumsfeld in a series of lies concerning our reasons to invade Iraq.

MCGOVERN: Thanks for that question, because we now have documentary proof that the president knew there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq well before the invasion.

We have the minutes of his discussions with Tony Blair, the British prime minister, on the 31st of January 2003, where the president says, there really -- really aren't any weapons of mass destruction to be found, but we need some way to make this war. Maybe -- yes, that's a good idea. Maybe we will paint one of our U-2s with U.N. colors and hope that it gets shot down, or maybe we will get a defector out that will attest to the presence of weapons of mass destruction. Or there's an outside chance we can just assassinate Saddam Hussein.

That's on the record. The British vouch for that. We also have the Downing Street memos, where the head of British intelligence came back from consultations with George Tenet in July of 2002 and said the intelligence and the facts are being fixed around the policy.

"...but we need some way to make this war."

"Maybe we will paint one of our U-2s with U.N. colors and hope that it gets shot down..."

If Bush actually said those things, he and his entire cabinet should be thrown out of office.