US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, John Kerry, has admitted that the Iraq war was a ‘lie’ in an interview with a French journalist who confronted him on the United States’ war record.
Kerry, who argued the West must hold Putin to account for the war in Ukraine, was asked, “to show that the West follows principles… should we also judge Bush for Iraq?… [w]asn’t that a crime of assault as well?”
Kerry – an Iraq war supporter – admitted the casus belli was a lie, but excused the mountain of deaths and the spending of trillions, stating: “Well, we didn’t know it was a lie at the time, the evidence that was produced, people did not know that there was a lie.”
Before attempting to pivot away, claiming he did not want to “relitigate the Iraq war,” Kerry went on to admit: “We gave the President the power, regrettably, in Congress based on the lie, and when we knew it was a lie, people stood up and did the right thing.”
It is unclear what “the right thing” alludes to, as no one in the United States government has ever been held responsible for the lie that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians.
Kerry argued that he opposed the military invasion of Iraq – a claim that has been fact-checked as “false” multiple times. Kerry voted in favor of the resolution that supported the war in Iraq in 2002, arguing in a speech on the Senate floor on October 9, 2002: “Let me be clear, the vote I will give to the President is for one reason and one reason only: To disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, if we cannot accomplish that objective through new, tough weapons inspections in joint concert with our allies.”
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