Questions of 'hype' come after Iraq war

Washington Times ^ | Wednesday, June 4, 2003 | By James G. Lakely

[JohnHuang2]

Many of the critics suggesting that the Bush administration exaggerated the threat of Saddam Hussein to justify war in Iraq didn't raise those questions when they emerged from intelligence briefings.

Sen. Bob Graham, a Florida Democrat who is running for president, suggested in a CNN interview on Sunday that the Bush administration might have willfully distributed erroneous information on the threat posed by Iraq — a charge that CIA Director George J. Tenet denied vigorously in a rare public statement made Friday and released this week.

[JohnHuang2]

Wednesday, June 4, 2003

Quote of the Day by Paul Atreides

[FairOpinion]

FINALLY someone is saying this in the press, that the Democrats weren't doubting that Iraq had WMD prior to the war, based on the intel reports and that the Clinton Administration maintained that all along.

[seamus]

It's important to set this in the record that EVERYONE on the Hill believed these intelligence reports. While some heads might eventually roll in the CIA, it's hardly fair to make political hay over Bush publicizing the intel reports when EVERYONE believed them -- including the hard-to-convince Colin Powell.