'Have respect for the dead:' Ari Fleischer rebuked after defending Bush on Iraq war anniversary
Marines in Nasiriyah, Iraq, on March 23, 2003. By Alex Horton Alex Horton General assignment reporter covering national and breaking news Email Bio Follow March 20 at 5:42 PM The engines of unarmored Humvees whirred on the Kuwait-Iraq border, readied for a mission to find weapons of mass destruction that would never be accomplished.
In a 22-tweet monologue Tuesday night, Fleischer sought to knock down a conception that the administration lied its way into one of the 21st century’s most significant security blunders. “If I were Ari Fleischer, this is not the day I would choose to say something,” Friedman said. “I would try to have respect for the dead, knowing the role I played kicking off his war.”
“We told [the White House and Pentagon] that al-Zarqawi was not a member of al-Qaeda before the invasion,” Bakos said, referring to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who only later founded the insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq, the next year.
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