Chilling Evidence that the Case for the Iraq War was built on Purposeful Deception

This piece in today's Washington Post seems to provide damning evidence that the Bush Administration KNOWINGLY included discredited evidence that Iraq was pursuing nuclear technology as justification for a pre-emptive invasion of a sovereign country that was NOT an imminent threat to the US. The discredited evidence even made its way into the President's state of the union address just prior to the US invasion of Iraq. This is what the Libby cover up is all about, and why it's so important.

Here is a quote [the document is the discredited Niger-Iraq nuclear claim; Burba is an Italian an investigative reporter for the Italian newsweekly Panorama].

"As a result of the CIA's failure to firmly discredit the document text it received in February 2002, former U.S. ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV was called in to investigate the claim. That decision eventually led to the special counsel's investigation that exposed inner workings of the White House and ended with the criminal conviction of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who was forced to resign as chief of staff to Vice President Cheney.

"You know I feel bad about it," Burba said later, discussing her frustrations about her role in giving the [fraudulent Niger] dossier to the Americans. "You know the fact is that my documents, with the documents I brought to them, they justified the war.""

Even if the invasion had "worked" or does "work" (and there's little evidence of that after 4 years) do the ends justify the means...?