Originally posted by JaTo:

Please point to the SPECIFIC information that the CIA, DIA, NSA, Mossad, MI6, etc., etc., had in hand on Hussein having NO WMD and NO nuclear aspirations.



whether saddam had wmds or was looking into nukes is not in dispute.

the dispute is over the veracity and urgency of the intelligence presented to congress and the american people as justifying a pre-emptive attack on iraq.

the dispute is whether the congress and american people had access to all the intelligence where our own agencies had a difference of opinion between what they found and the message coming from the bush admin.

this was a decision that was made knowing we would have little to no help from the rest of the world. was it urgent enough, was it supported by the intelligence we had, did we have to do it right at that point in time knowing that american forces and tax payers would bear the brunt of the effort for an unknown period of time. making a decision to go to war is too serious to be entered into under questionable pretenses. what was the litmus test for whether this intelligence was reliable or not?

i can understand why the bush admin wants to avoid completion of the investigation by the joint committee, but we deserve to know how "disputed" their case was since we obviously didn't know the whole story on the intelligence the first time around and the case for war has not stood the test of time.

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