AP needs to remind me, what was the "botched Iraq intelligence" again?
Even if "Curveball" fabricated every single thing that he ever said, it is well know that Iraq had chemical weapons (40,000 dead Kurds is proof of that). It is well known that Iraq was pursuing nuclear weapons. They had scientists, a special division in the top level of govt. devoted to nuclear weapons development, and a group of buildings that were found to be so radioactive that the first U.S. Marines that stormed the area could not enter because their Geiger counters pegged from 100 yards away and had to be entered by trained technicians wearing radiation suits.
The media claims that an Iraqi invasion was never adequately justified are completely outrageous. The war is a rousing success for humanitarian reasons alone. Funny how the liberals, who are all about "saving the children", are completely indifferent to Saddam's regime executing 40,000 Kurds with nerve gas and filling mass graves with 600,000 citizens and counting. Hell, the liberals and international human rights organizations were actively lobbying for Saddam to be able to continue his activities unabated and they're mad as hell that America stopped him!!
I also find interesting the level of justification that the liberals demand for an invasion of Iraq but Klinton bombed Bosnia for 73 days and nobody knows why.
I agree with you and will go even further---
I believe the WMDs are still around, in Syria and possible still in Iraq somewhere--they keep finding hugh weapons caches so no telling how much of that sandpile hasn't been really investigated yet---
I think Levin and the 9/11 Commission members are just mad that they didn't do their jobs well enough---perhaps because their objective was to find something to impeach Bush over instead of finding out the truth---
Tenet is just playing the sides against each other, because he would get in big trouble with BOTH side prolly, if the truth be known...