White House Used Info From Iraqi Exiles In State of the Union Speech

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http://www.liberalslant.com/jl073103.htm

By: Jason Leopold - 07/31/03

Last weekend, Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz explained that the United States at times relied on “murky” intelligence in trying to link Iraq to the al-Qaeda terrorist group, but the war against Iraq was justified despite the fact that the White House is now being dogged by questions about the accuracy of its prewar intelligence.

“The nature of terrorism intelligence is intrinsically murky,” Wolfowitz said on Meet the Press. “If you wait until the terrorism picture is clear, you're going to wait until after something terrible has happened.”

But the reasons behind the murky intelligence used by the White House to build a case for war against Iraq may have more to do with the people who provided the Pentagon and the White House with its information on Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction than the difficulties the intelligence community already faces in trying to obtain reliable intelligence from a variety of sources.

“Having concluded that international inspectors are unlikely to find tangible and irrefutable evidence that Iraq is hiding weapons of mass destruction, the Bush administration is preparing its own assessment that will rely heavily on evidence from Iraqi defectors, according to senior administration officials,” The New York Times reported Jan. 23.

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1. Ha!Ha! Judith Miller's buddy Chalabi - makes sense

Same lies, same source.

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2. That's what happens

When you don't let the CIA do their job and you don't want to hear any bad news. That's what happens when you set up your own intelligence unit within the Pentagon, with neocons who don't know shit, except how to implement Likud's agenda.

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3. When you rely on murky people....

You get murky intelligence. Of course we can all rest easily knowing that the "adults" are in charge.