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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Know now about Iraq" or "Would you COOK THE INTEL BOOKS and lie to congress,
to other world leaders, to the media, to the American people, in order to invade Iraq the way your brother and Dick Cheney did in 2002?"
It's utter BULLSH!T for anyone to claim that intel was at fault. The intel was COOKED deliberately.
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Oct. 8, 2002, 10:47AM
Some administration officials expressing misgivings on Iraq
By WARREN P. STROBEL and JONATHAN S. LANDAY
Knight-Ridder Tribune News
WASHINGTON -- While President Bush marshals congressional and international
support for invading Iraq, a growing number of military officers, intelligence
professionals and diplomats in his own government privately have deep misgivings
about the administration's double-time march toward war.
These officials charge that administration hawks have exaggerated evidence of
the threat that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein poses -- including distorting his
links to the al-Qaida terrorist network -- have overstated the amount of
international support for attacking Iraq and have downplayed the potential
repercussions of a new war in the Middle East.
They charge that the administration squelches dissenting views and that
intelligence analysts are under intense pressure to produce reports supporting
the White House's argument that Saddam poses such an immediate threat to the
United States that pre-emptive military action is necessary.
"Analysts at the working level in the intelligence community are feeling very
strong pressure from the Pentagon to cook the intelligence books," said one
official, speaking on condition of anonymity.
A dozen other officials echoed his views in interviews.
No one who was interviewed disagreed.
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Remember Downing Street Memos?
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/12/leadup-iraq-war-timeline
leveymg
(36,418 posts)were against it. Only 21 brave Senate Democrats voted against it at the time. And, Kerry wasn't among them, and Hillary certainly wasn't, either.
blm
(113,083 posts)before, during and after the invasion. Many people forget that. He was the lone Aye vote to do so.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)just aligned their Ducks and the rest is History. Once they had the M$M on board,the plan was a go. One only has to remember John Holman with CNN in Bagdad in 1991.
blm
(113,083 posts)Bushes, Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)the incubators for all the Neo Con Fascist ideas.
blm
(113,083 posts)I make sure to say that to GOP voters. Heheheh
johnnyreb
(915 posts)It's too hard to keep up. It's too hard to Never Forget. Too hard to call our representatives to put pressure on them to read the classified chapter. Too hard to learn. Too easy to obey and dream of headchoppers.
song:
http://www.alternativetentacles.com/octopodes/820/poxLp-8PbDqtbWsLyn4/Thrall-Were_Gonna_Get_W.mp3
And then there's Ivy!!
http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/05/14/ivy-ziedrich-college-student-warms-to-role-as-jeb-bush-critic-on-isis/
blm
(113,083 posts)I Rec your reply.
KoKo
(84,711 posts)blm
(113,083 posts)for the youngens
; )
madokie
(51,076 posts)it pisses me off when I read that shit too. fuck that noise. I'm tired of being lied too by our press, simple as that
blm
(113,083 posts)This presidential campaign will be used to set the lie in stone.
Unless
..we keep responding with the truth.
Octafish
(55,745 posts)He ended up dead from a fall the top of the State Department, reportedly just after voicing his reasons to his superiors. Another "suicide" whose sudden, if convenient, passing made it easier for the warmongers and war profiteers to make another killing on yet another day. As it was never covered in the national press, Mr. Kokal's story and death after publicly opposing the Iraq invasion is now largely forgotten. His death should be investigated as a murder.
blm
(113,083 posts)don'tcha know?
Octafish
(55,745 posts)She was one of the last people to email Dr. David Kelly. Then, from jail, Scooter Libby himself reminded her of her role as one of the Aspens, roots connected underground. Judy's all about Truthy.
blm
(113,083 posts)Because she knew EXACTLY what she was doing.