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Another smoking gun...
>> When no weapons of mass destruction surfaced in Iraq, President Bush insisted that all those WMD claims before the war were the result of faulty intelligence. But a former top CIA official, Tyler Drumheller ? a 26-year veteran of the agency ? has decided to do something CIA officials at his level almost never do: Speak out.
He tells correspondent Ed Bradley the real failure was not in the intelligence community but in the White House. He says he saw how the Bush administration, time and again, welcomed intelligence that fit the president's determination to go to war and turned a blind eye to intelligence that did not....
"The idea of going after Iraq was U.S. policy. It was going to happen one way or the other," says Drumheller.
Drumheller says he doesn't think it mattered very much to the administration what the intelligence community had to say. "I think it mattered it if verified. This basic belief that had taken hold in the U.S. government that now is the time, we had the means, all we needed was the will," he says. <<
Bush and co. (he names Cheney as well) were cherry-picking to support the pre-ordained conclusion, just as I've said for over a year now!
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... and half the time they are saying things they weren't even involved in!
WHO is the source for the Rumsfeld quote again?
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like the rest way over there on the left you very conveniently simply ignore the plain fact that the same info was being reported to Clinton and the British, French, Polish, Russian, Germans, and the rest of the International Intelligence Community.
One wonders whether you EVER pause to reflect that these deceitful embers ALWAYS precipitate a book release and passionate purchases of a disappointing and factually bereft publication.
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