Sunday, May 22, 2005
A Weak Case for War
From the Washington Post, yet another story about how intelligence was manipulated to justify going to war with Iraq.
"It has been clear since the September report of the Iraq Survey Group -- a CIA-sponsored weapons search in Iraq -- that the United States would not find the weapons of mass destruction cited by Bush as the rationale for going to war against Iraq. But it appears that even before the war many senior intelligence officials in the government had doubts about the case being trumpeted in public by the president and his senior advisers."
Senior intelligence officials had doubts about the Iraq War? Oops. I'm sure the families of the 1633 soldiers killed will understand how the Bush administration brazenly pushed forward with a war that was not justified and in a country that posed no immediate threat to the U.S.
Read the whole article about how intelligence officials expressed doubts all along but were pressured by the White House to manufacture "evidence," and then rack your brain to figure out how a former president could be impeached for a lie about an extramarital affair while this president lies about WMD to launch a war that kills thousands and wins a second term.
Prewar Findings Worried Analysts
"It has been clear since the September report of the Iraq Survey Group -- a CIA-sponsored weapons search in Iraq -- that the United States would not find the weapons of mass destruction cited by Bush as the rationale for going to war against Iraq. But it appears that even before the war many senior intelligence officials in the government had doubts about the case being trumpeted in public by the president and his senior advisers."
Senior intelligence officials had doubts about the Iraq War? Oops. I'm sure the families of the 1633 soldiers killed will understand how the Bush administration brazenly pushed forward with a war that was not justified and in a country that posed no immediate threat to the U.S.
Read the whole article about how intelligence officials expressed doubts all along but were pressured by the White House to manufacture "evidence," and then rack your brain to figure out how a former president could be impeached for a lie about an extramarital affair while this president lies about WMD to launch a war that kills thousands and wins a second term.
Prewar Findings Worried Analysts
