[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

So we have three (Reliable.../s) sources here.... CIA, 60 minutes and Powell’s sidekick Wilkerson.....

[elpadre]

I seem to recall that not only German intelligence, but also the Brits and Italians all believed WMD’s were either ready or almost ready for use in Iraq and fed their info to CIA. There was widespread knowledge among the world’s intelligence services.

[Jason_b]

I don’t know what’s wrong with the CIA analysts, I saw the aerial photo of the supposed plant-the buldings around which trucks were supposed to be driving to get in the end of one building and exit the opposite end. There was a wall that everyone was concerned might block the trucks, but why didn’t anyone notice that there were no tracks? Trucks driving around would have worn a path that would have been visible, they leak oil slowly over time that mixes with the dirt and discolors it. No one looked at the picture and thought no-track means no trucks. Like they said, we were going to war anyway. But this episode makes the CIA look like a bunch of dunces. Is there ever any evidence to the contrary? And if our leadership is that determined to invade, why not just say we are doing it because we are unhappy with the current regime and we believe changing it is the right thing to do? Why insist on citing junk intelligence that is only going to be an embarassment later? Because by that time, after you look stupid, it is too late to make appeals to moral authority.