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Originally posted by Jeff Higgins
Our intelligence was obviously severely lacking; at least a couple of administrations and most European governments honestly believed there was something to the weapons charges.
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To get back on topic again . .
The intelligence was not just lacking, much of it was manufactured, spun and patently false.
Does anyone remember 'curveball', the lone iraqi defector who's tales of WMD largesse accounted for most of the administration's tall tales even though most middle east experts in the CIA and military claimed his stories were dubious at best.
And then there are his handlers, which read like a who's who of the bush administration and the PNAC. These people have been working for over a decade to start a full scale war against iraq and much of this so called 'intelligence' has been created by this group soley for this purpose.
For example someone went as far as to manufacture forged documents to make it look like saddam was trying to procure uranium from africa, strange concidering that iraq has enough uranium ore within its borders to not need to shop around for the stuff.
So what has the bush administration done to guard against such future 'intelligence lapses'? His cronies are forcing all the people who dared to do their job the first time around pointing out which intelligence was legit and which was false out of the US's intelligence organizations and promoting the ideologs and yes men who always say what the president wants to hear.
Just how far up one's ass does a person need shove their head to ignore such facts and claim that the manufactured concent that was used to launch a war of agression against a nation that did not attack us first was an accident?