Posted on 02/21/2020 8:21:17 PM PST by rintintin
Notice that 9/11 was in 2001. Bush waited until all the WMDs were moved out before he sent our troops in, March 2003.
YOU SENT ME TO THIS REPORT:
“IAG noted that, due to security concerns, it “was unable to complete its investigation and is unable to rule out the possibility that WMD was evacuated to Syria before the war.””
You want to make the DEMOCRATS case its more likely there weren’t WMD, I DON’T GIVE A FLYING CRAP.
What I care about is that this issue, while possibly helpful to Trump getting some support in 2015-16, is linking conservatives with TENS OF THOUSANDS OF SCUMBAG COMMUNISTS WHO MARCHED AGAINST OUR TROOPS during the war, and who I and other Freepers faced down in groups of hundreds as TENS OF THOUSANDS OF SCUMBAG FUTURE BERNIE DOUCHEBAGS tried to attack us in the streets of NYC.
There are many other Freepers here who MONTHLY stood outside Walter Reade Hospital supporting our troops against SCUMBAGs who screamed “YOU LOST YOUR LEG FOR NOTHING”.
/end of discussion.
The Iraq Survey Group was Bush’s creation, not the Democrats. You can pretend all that you want, it won’t change the facts.
Ari Fleischer, Press Secretary for GW Bush Jan 2001 to July 2003
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The CIA, along with the intelligence services of Egypt, France, Israel and others concluded that Saddam had WMD. We all turned out to be wrong. That is very different from lying.
6:46 PM · Mar 19, 2019
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Mar 19, 2019
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After the war, a bipartisan group was created to determine what went wrong, particularly why the intelligence community’s conclusions about Iraq were so different from what was found on the ground after the war.
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Mar 19, 2019
The group of experts was named the Robb-Silberman commission. It’s report was issued in March 2005. It can be found in full here: http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/wmd/report/report.html#overview
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Mar 19, 2019
Its key finding was that that a “major intelligence failure” took place. It also stated that no intelligence service was pressured by the Bush Administration to conclude that Saddam had WMDs.
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Mar 19, 2019
Here are the key quotes from their report: “Overall Commission Finding: The Intelligence Community’s performance in assessing Iraq’s pre-war weapons of mass destruction programs was a major intelligence failure.
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Mar 19, 2019
Nuclear Weapons Summary Finding: The Intelligence Community seriously misjudged the status of Iraq’s alleged nuclear weapons program in the 2002 NIE and other pre-Iraq war intelligence products.
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Mar 19, 2019
This misjudgment stemmed chiefly from the Community’s failure to analyze correctly Iraq’s reasons for attempting to procure high-strength aluminum tubes.
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Mar 19, 2019
Biological Warfare Summary Finding: The Intelligence Community seriously misjudged the status of Iraq’s biological weapons program in the 2002 NIE and other pre-war intelligence products.
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Mar 19, 2019
The primary reason for this misjudgment was the Intelligence Community’s heavy reliance on a human source—codenamed “Curveball”—whose information later proved to be unreliable.
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Mar 19, 2019
Chemical Warfare Summary Finding: The Intelligence Community erred in its 2002 NIE assessment of Iraq’s alleged chemical warfare program.
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Mar 19, 2019
The Community’s substantial overestimation of Iraq’s chemical warfare program was due chiefly to flaws in analysis and the paucity of quality information collected.
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Mar 19, 2019
In the case of Iraq, collectors of intelligence absorbed the prevailing analytic consensus and tended to reject or ignore contrary information. The result was “tunnel vision” focusing on the Intelligence Community’s existing assumptions.
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Mar 19, 2019
The Intelligence Community did not make or change any analytic judgments in response to political pressure to reach a particular conclusion, but the pervasive conventional wisdom that Saddam retained WMD affected the analytic process.
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Mar 19, 2019
The CIA took too long to admit error in Iraq, and its Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation, and Arms Control Center actively discouraged analysts from investigating errors.
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Mar 19, 2019
Finally, we closely examined the possibility that intelligence analysts were pressured by policymakers to change their judgments about Iraq’s nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons programs.
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Mar 19, 2019
The analysts who worked Iraqi weapons issues universally agreed that in no instance did political pressure cause them to skew or alter any of their analytical judgments.”
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Mar 19, 2019
Which leads me to conclude that there was a liar and his name was Saddam Hussein. He created an elaborate system of lies to fool western intelligence services and he succeeded. He wanted us to believe he had WMDs.
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Mar 19, 2019
The allegaton that “Bush lied. People died” is a liberal myth created to politically target President Bush. I understand the anger that was felt after no WMDs were found.
YOU SENT ME TO THIS REPORT:
“IAG noted that, due to security concerns, it “was unable to complete its investigation and is unable to rule out the possibility that WMD was evacuated to Syria before the war.””
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