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To: Canard

Exactly, in contradiction to the first sentence of this article:

"...containing new evidence that the Bush administration manipulated intelligence to justify its plan to invade Iraq.."

We know via these official investigations the intelligence was crap and that our intelligence organizations are broken. This is a failure of our entire government (Executive failure and Congressional Oversight), not Bush or Blair 'manipulating intelligence'. What we need to worry about is that it is still broken.


15 posted on 05/21/2005 8:29:49 AM PDT by gogipper
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To: gogipper

"We know via these official investigations the intelligence was crap and that our intelligence organizations are broken. This is a failure of our entire government (Executive failure and Congressional Oversight), not Bush or Blair 'manipulating intelligence'."

I partially agree. However, the Butler report did find that some caveats that were included in draft versions of the dossier released by the British government, then had these caveats removed in the final version. This can only have been to make the intelligence seem stronger than it actually was. This particularly applied to the '45 minute claim' which, according to the report, should not have been included in the dossier in the form that it was.


18 posted on 05/21/2005 8:41:24 AM PDT by Canard
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