14 November 2005

"cooking the books and politicizing intelligence"

larry johnson's latest... tellin' it like it is on the Bush administration's attempts to hide behind the Robb/Silbermann report to protect them from mounting evidence that they knowingly trumped up an unnecessary and dangerous preemptive war, based almost entirely on selective, false or forged intelligence.
Here is the bottomline. There is no such thing as perfect intelligence or perfect analysis. However, we do not serve the security of this country by perpetuating the myth that we went to war in Iraq because a couple of analysts believed Saddam's acquisition of aluminum tubes was part of a secret program to build a nuke. Going to war was and remains a political decision made by a President.

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