US former diplomat died of criticism of the Iraq war "survey results distorted" September 29 5:55
The former diplomat Joseph Wilson, who criticized the Bush administration at that time, died on the 27th, after conducting a survey on weapons of mass destruction, the basis of which the United States took the war on Iraq, and distorting the information on the survey results. I was 69 years old.
Former US diplomat Joseph Wilson conducted a survey on weapons of mass destruction at the request of the US government in 2002, the year before the start of the Iraq War.
In the survey, Iraqi President Hussein investigated the suspicion of purchasing uranium, a raw material for weapons of mass destruction, from Niger, Africa, and concluded that Mr. Wilson was "not credible."
However, when the Bush administration stepped into the Iraq war based on these allegations, Mr. Wilson contributed to the leading New York Times and criticized it harshly as "information was distorted and the threat of Iraq was exaggerated." did.
Later, confidential information that Mr. Wilson's wife was a CIA operative leaked, and there was a suspicion that this was a reprisal by the administration, and in that investigation, a government official was convicted of perjury. It has also developed into a major scandal that shakes the administration.
According to American media, Wilson died on August 27 at home in Western New Mexico due to organ failure.