Continuing the blog series on the administration push to Iraq. In August, 2002, the partly stealth, partly hype campaign is launched in deadly earnest. By this time, the White House has marshaled all the necessary think-tank support and has enlisted every significant element of the rightwing echo machine.
August 1-14, 2002:

Aug. 1, 2002 – The CIA publishes a paper titled ‘Iraq’s Reemerging Nuclear Program.’ The paper does not mention the Niger uranium story.

Aug. 5, 2002 – U.S. and U.K. forces destroy an air defense base in southwest Iraq, near the Saudi ...   more »