“You cannot help to think about the old cliché that history is nothing but fiction, agreed upon,” Brian Becker, the National Coordinator of the ANSWER Coalition, told an RT telelevison interviewer today about Donald Rumsfeld's new memoirs.

“The fiction is that the war in Iraq was justified, that they did the right thing,” he added. “They spent hundreds of billions of dollars, perhaps up to $2 trillion, in a war which took the lives of a million Iraqis according to the Lancet medical journal.”