Originally posted by PDXSVT: This is going back a bit on this thread, but has anyone seen the case that Greg Thielmann (30 year veteran of the US State Dept) makes on how the US' Energy Dept. AND State Dept. analysts knew (and reported) -- before we invaded -- that Saddam's aluminum tubes were not for use in centrifuges to enrich radioisotopes... yet those tubes were regularly cited in Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld/Rice comments before the war, to justify going in soon after the remarks were made. And yes, even by Colin Powell, disregarding his department's analysts.
WTF kind of consensus throughout the international intelligence community is that?
This is the only important point in the whole WMD argument.
The Bush admin chose to ignore input from the Dept of Energy that the aluminum tubes were unsuitable for use in uranium enrichment.
Without evidence of a nuclear program they knew that support for an invasion was not nearly as strong.
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