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How come no one remembers the Iraqi Liberation Act of 1998 when Bill Clinton said that Iraq was an imminent threat?

[Grampa Dave]

The real issue is not that intelligence was manipulated. It is that it was fundamentally unsound--that it misled the president and all the rest of us. The CIA, like most western intelligence services, relied heavily on the reports of the U.N. weapons inspectors. It had less than a handful of human sources in Iraq, none of whom was part of Saddam's inner circle. As one CIA officer put it, "If I put my finger up my nose, I would still have enough fingers to cover the number of our sources." The back story here, as Jim Hoagland put it in the Washington Post, was a CIA "rebellion against the White House, in part to shift attention from their [own] failures."

"Democrats who saw the same intelligence as President Bush drew the same conclusions. The failure to have developed a more accurate assessment of Saddam's secret weapons programs doesn't mean that going to war was right--and it certainly doesn't justify the way the war was executed. These are subjects worthy of grave attention. But to impugn the integrity of our leading officials and poison the atmosphere in which this country is fighting a war is irresponsible politics, and it ought to be stopped."

[Doogle]

Were the American people taken into war on false pretenses?

...if Sandy Burger wore hip boots could he have stolen and destroyed more secret documents?

Doogle

[HawaiianGecko]

	This guy makes sense, therefore, everyone will ignore him.

 

 

[foreshadowed at waco]

to impugn the integrity of our leading officials and poison the atmosphere in which this country is fighting a war is irresponsible politics, and it ought to be stopped.

Thanks, Mort, for stating the obvious in print...where are the rest of the media? Lost again. The media and the Democrats on the Hill are scum...where are Joe Biden or Joe Lieberman, the supposedly moral moderates of the party? Why they're keeping their traps shut hoping that the Republicans get dirtied by Reid's slanderous remarks and they'll benefit in 2008!!! Do any of them ever put the country first? Why am I still expecting a miracle?

[CyberAnt]

I think Podhoertz (sp?) article about the REAL TRUTH is starting to trickle down to others.

[Political Junkie Too]

I wonder if this means that the MSM isn't ready to blindly jump on the "Bush mislead" bandwagon so quickly, given the history in print of unanimous consent in the belief that Iraq had WMD.

-PJ