President Bush took our nation to war based on his claim that Iraq's weapons of mass destruction posed an imminent threat to our country. Now the evidence that backed that assertion is falling apart.

If the Bush administration distorted intelligence or knowingly used false data to support the call to war, it would be an unprecedented deception. Even if weapons are now found, it'll be difficult to justify prewar language that indicated the exact location of the weapons was known and that they were ready to be deployed at a moment's notice.

With a crisis of credibility brewing abroad and the integrity of our president and our foreign policy on the line, we need answers now. We demand that Congress establish an independent, bipartisan commission to investigate the distortion of evidence. It is hoped that such proceedings will be public.

A president may make no more important decision than whether to take a country to war. If we plan to take on Syria and Iran next, let's find out what really happened in Iraq's WMD-gate.

Aref Assaf

Denville, June 23