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...Over those five speeches (along with some other public pronouncements), the Bush team laid out their case for invading Iraq. Thursday's Senate report compared those statements to hundreds of intelligence reports and concluded the following...
...fairly common knowledge by now that pre-war statements made by top officials in the Bush Administration about Iraq were exaggerated or just plain wrong, based as they were on old or faulty intelligence. In that respect, the final part of Phase II of the Senate Intelligence Committee's Report on Prewar Iraq Intelligence doesn't break any new ground. What it does do, however, is try to make the case that President Bush and his advisers deliberately disregarded conflicting intel and misled Americans on the severity of the Iraqi threat...
...West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefeller, the committee's chair, said it plain: "It is my belief that the Bush Administration was fixated on Iraq, and used the 9/11 attacks by al-Qaeda as justification for overthrowing Sadaam Hussein. To accomplish this, top Administration officials made repeated statements that falsely linked Iraq and al-Qaeda as a single threat...
...report brings to an end years of investigation by the committee into the use of intelligence in the period ramping up to the invasion of Iraq. Phase I of the report, released on July 9, 2004, looked at the intelligence community's assessments as to whether a) Iraq had viable weapons of mass destruction and b) whether or not Iraq and al-Qaeda were strongly linked. We now know that a) it did not and b) they...
...this report goes a step further, investigating "whether public statements and reports and testimony regarding Iraq by U.S. Government officials made between the Gulf War period and the commencement of Operation Iraqi Freedom were substantiated by intelligence information." In effect it's saying, words really do matter, especially when those words in question lead...