Originally posted by JaTo: So, if the source of the intel is in question here, why all the yammering at Bush and other Republican lawmakers?
i for one have been saying that i suspected the "executive leadership" (aka the bush admin) knew the body of intelligence they used to promote the war in iraq was not a slam dunk. i believe they didn't want to waste effort reviewing intelligence that didn't support their case and/or discarded the intelligence they already had that didn't support their case.
the iraq war was not the catastrophic intelligence failure it's being touted as. 9/11 and the events leading up to it was, but we know/knew they (saddam and 9/11) were unrelated. the only catastropic thing about iraq imo was the cherry picking of the intelligence at hand.
they were so motivated by their hate for saddam, that they placed the bar lower for the veracity of the case for a war in iraq.
