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stevenleser

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5. That's not correct. The consensus of the Intelligence community was right about Iraq

Thu May 29, 2014, 07:52 PM

May 2014

They doubted Iraq still had WMD and they doubted that Iraq had ties to terror groups.

The Bush admin actively searched for and found the few intel folks who believed Saddam had WMD and behaved as if that was the opinion of the intelligence community. They browbeat those who didn't agree, they brought in Chalabi and other Iraqi expats hostile to Saddam to run separate intelligence functions and in every other way manipulated it so that there was data supporting their viewpoint.

And if that wasn't enough, they then blamed the Intel community when WMD wasnt found.

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2003/05/12/030512fa_fact

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the US security apparatus is still manned by the same people that lied about iraq. KG May 2014 #1

Exactly right. djean111 May 2014 #3

That's not correct. The consensus of the Intelligence community was right about Iraq stevenleser May 2014 #5

You speak the truth, Bush and company ignored the intellegence and just made stuff up with the Fred Sanders May 2014 #9

If the government told me the sky is blue LittleBlue May 2014 #2

.... 840high May 2014 #8

We need a lot more data to determine that one way or another. stevenleser May 2014 #4

and Russia has again invaded Duckhunter935 May 2014 #6

Kiev Post unreferenced blog posts are as credible as DU referenced posts. Fred Sanders May 2014 #7