One of these days there will be enough of these to convince all reasonable
people that the reason Bush invaded Iraq had abxolutely nothing to do with
911, WMDs or terrorists.
http://tinyurl.com/bpuf6
"In an article published on Friday in the journal Foreign Affairs, Paul R.
Pillar, the CIA's national intelligence officer for the Near East and
South Asia from 2000 to 2005, called the relationship between U.S.
intelligence and policymaking "broken."
"In the wake of the Iraq war, it has become clear that official
intelligence analysis was not relied on in making even the most
significant national security decisions, that intelligence was misused
publicly to justify decisions already made," Pillar wrote.
Although the Clinton administration and other countries' governments also
believed that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was amassing weapons of mass
destruction, they supported sanctions and weapons inspections as means to
contain the threat, he said.
The Bush administration's decision to go to war indicates other
motivations, Pillar wrote, namely a power shake-up in the Middle East and
a hastened "spread of more liberal politics and economics in the region."
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Doug
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