I don't know the statement can be taken both ways but (having english parents) strongly hints that the decision was made and intelligence was fixed around a already decided course of action.
Question is, is this a big deal? Woodward already made this same point clear in his last book. Clark has already stated the same thing. It's not news....
Taking Iraq out of the middle-east equation should have been done years ago. Iraq was a threat and roadblock to progess in the middle east. This is fact, no need to fix any intelligence and no one tried or argued with this basic premise.
So the question is, is this news, the answer is no it's not.
Agreed, but when the Dims and the MSM are grasping at straws it makes no difference to them. Thirty year old DWI's aren't news either, but it didn't stop 'em from trying to trash "W's" image with it some years ago. Their approach is to throw copious amounts of $hit on the wall in hopes that some of it will stick. Can't blame 'em for trying. Their utopian dream is heading for the rocks ;^)
FGS