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--- Begin Message ----Caveat Lector- http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article6135.htmBlowing Smoke for Bush Court Historian Woodward Disguises Bush Aims in Invading Iraq by Ray McGovern 05/03/04 -- Why is Bob Woodwards latest book, Plan of Attack, is being promoted by the administration? Because it portrays an in-charge President Bush and presents him as genuinely concerned (and seemingly misled) over the threat posed by Iraqs weapons of mass-destruction. Unfortunately, the nations most-famous investigative reporter got it wrong. You would not know from Woodwards book that the CIAs National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction used with Congress to hype the threat - was written several months after the administration decided to make war on Iraq. That decision had little to do with WMD or with supposed ties between Iraq and al-Qaeda. It had everything to do with the imperative seen by Bushs neoconservative advisers to gain dominant influence over strategic, oil-rich Iraq and to eliminate any possible threat to Israels security. With that twin aim, the rationale was generally consistent with several decades of U.S. policy objectives in the Middle East. Where the Bush administration broke new ground was in its decision to launch a preemptive war when there was nothing to preempt. To honest analystsincluding some within the coalition of the willingthe actual U.S. purpose was a no-brainer. Australian intelligence analysts, for example, had done their homework in reading the neoconservatives rationale in the documents of the Project for a New American Century and were able to make confident judgments regarding underlying U.S. motives. Senior Australian intelligence analyst Andrew Wilkie has testified to his Parliament that Australian intelligence gave his government detailed assessments in which it was made very clear that the U.S. was intent on invading Iraq for more important reasons than WMD and terrorism. Hence, all this talk about WMD and terrorism was hollow. The U.S. Congress was not likely to acquiesce in attacking Iraq on the basis of the strategic vision of the neoconservatives. Rather, it was necessary to coerce our lawmakers by conjuring up ominous specters like the frequently adduced mushroom cloud. Enter the NIE on Iraq and weapons of mass destruction prepared hurriedly in September 2002. Secretary of State Colin Powell has admitted that the target audience for the Estimate was Congress. The NIE and its various initial drafts became the centerpiece of a successful campaign to persuade our elected representatives to relinquish to the executive the war-making power vested solely in them by the framers of the Constitution. Hyping the evidence on WMD in classified briefings for Congress proved relatively easy; making a persuasive public case for WMD in Iraq was a tougher challenge. According to Bob Woodwarderstwhile junkyard dog of Watergate and, more recently, domesticated administration chroniclerCIA Director George Tenet and his deputy were called to the White House on December 21, 2002 to rehearse the case for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. In his book Plan of Attack, Woodward reports that when the briefing was over Bush turned to Tenet and remarked, Ive been told all this intelligence about having WMD and this is the best weve got? Woodward writes that Tenet assured the president that it was a slam-dunk case, and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, who was there, has confirmed Woodwards account. The next 45 days were devoted to fortifying the evidence in preparation for Colin Powells key speech at the U.N. on February 5, 2003. But as in the case of the earlier NIE, almost none of Powells assertions regarding WMD in Iraq have stood the test of time. Powell has even conceded publicly that he was misled on the existence of the Iraqi bio-trailers to which he gave such prominence, and says he has had discussions with the CIA about this particular embarrassment. That the White House has been promoting Woodwards book (Rice wasted no time in saying she is sure it is terrific) reflects the administrations determination to keep the focus on the cover story for the warWMD, and obscure the actual motives regarding oil and Israel. And if, with no WMD to be found, the U.S. media or political opponents press home the point about going to war on false pretenses, Woodwards book will provide useful yarn for White House spinners claiming the president was misled by faulty intelligence. And the slam-dunker can be left hanging on the rim of the basket, twisting in the wind, so to speak, until he falls of his own weight. By design, this would blow still more smoke over the actual reasons for the war. But for Tenet it would bring a certain poetic justice. For the unforgivable sin in intelligence analysis is telling the policymaker what he wants to hearjustifying with cooked intelligence what he has already decided to do. Sycophancy has no place in intelligence workand particularly not on issues of war and peace. Ray McGoverns ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) responsibilities during his 27-years as a CIA analyst included chairing National Intelligence Estimates. 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