Bush's Chairman of Joint Chiefs says Bush officials pushed for Iraq war 'almost to the point of insubordination...' War 'based on lies'...

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Gen. Hugh Shelton, who served as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1997 to 2001, told ABC's Christiane Amanpour on Sunday that top officials in the Bush Administration pushed for war in Iraq "almost to the point of insubordination."

Shelton was speaking specifically of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Deputy Secretary of State Paul Wolfowitz and other Pentagon officials.

Shelton called the Iraq war "unnecessary" and that the Bush team went to war "based on a series of lies.

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