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Within weeks of casting their fateful October 2002 votes giving President George W. Bush the authority to attack Iraq, Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Joe Lieberman (D-CT) became the honorary co-chairmen of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq (CLI), a public relations entity set up at the behest of the Bush administration to help sell the Iraq war to U.S. allies and the American public. [...] not only did Senators McCain and Lieberman vote for funds to help overthrow Saddam Hussain as early as 1998, they also voted to give President Bush the authority to use military force against him and, through their involvement with the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, actively contributed to the propaganda effort of trying to shape American public opinion in favor of the war.
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Mccain, Lieberman and Iraq: 'Till Death Do Us Part
Within weeks of casting their fateful October 2002 votes giving President George W. Bush the authority to attack Iraq, Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Joe Lieberman (D-CT) became the honorary co-chairmen of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq (CLI), a public relations entity set up at the behest of the Bush administration to help sell the Iraq war to U.S. allies and the American public. As recently confirmed by former Bush press secretary Scott McClellan in his book What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Wa...
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