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Originally Posted by obvious Child  Nothing you've said shows that Bush knew what he was saying was false....You need watergate tapes. |
There's plenty of evidence that Bush was determined to attack Iraq regardless of whether Saddam had WMD. He made the decision to invade Iraq only 4 months after Condi Rice stated publicly that Saddam was not a threat. If she knew, Bush would have known it, too. The Downing Street memos proved "intelligence was being fixed around policy," and that Bush suggested painting a US spy plane in UN colors to provoke Iraqi fire and provide a pretext for war.
There's also this:
"In 1995, when Saddam Hussein's son-in-law, Hussein Kamel, defected with a treasure trove of documents, he spilled the beans on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. There were none. He knew. He was in charge of the chemical, biological, nuclear, and missile programs and ordered all such weapons destroyed before the U.N. inspectors could discover them after the war in 1991.
He told us much more, and the information that could be checked out was confirmed."--Ray McGovern, former CIA analyst
Someone removed caveats from the October '02 NIE which was presented to Congress.
Considering the massive death and destruction caused by what is termed by Bush's supporters as a "mistake," shouldn't someone be held accountable?