The Trump administration “is using much the same playbook to create a
false choice that war is the only way to address the challenges
presented by Iran” as the George W. Bush administration used to gain
support for the Iraq War. College of William & Mary Professor
Lawrence Wilkerson presents this argument, along with abundant
supporting evidence, in a Monday New York Times editorial.
Wilkerson should know. In the lead-up to the Iraq War, Wilkerson was
chief of staff for United States Secretary of State Colin Powell, whose
United Nations presentation regarding Iraq Wilkerson, at the beginning
of the editorial, credits with boosting support among Americans for a
war against Iraq.
