Intel is almost never very precise. Hell, Intel is little more than an educated guess. I've read Intel reports for over 20 years. Most of them are vague and are frequently overturned within a matter of days. Perhaps you're someone whose opinions of how Intel works comes from Hollywood fantasies like "Enemy of the State". The real world is far different from the fantasies.
The fact that so many Democrats are making such a fuss over a single sentence in an hour long speech says a lot. At least some Democrats see how silly the current fuss really is.
So it's not that the CIA said that the claim wasn't true--it's that they claimed that the CIA didn't have enough evidence to support the claim. So what you're left with is the Administration making a decision to rely on the word of British intelligence. In other words, they relied on a long-term ally and friend, whose military has conducted many joint operations with us and with whom intelligence is shared on a regular basis. The British still claim that their intelligence is correct. So the headline of this article is just completely inaccurate. But not only that, there is no indication that Mr. Bush himself had any knowledge of this discussion. In other words, the evidence that Bush lied? ZERO.
Heaven knows I'm no Bush supporter, but if this is the best the Democrats can do, then they're going to keep losing for a long, long time. This was one sentence in one speech, people! The Bush Administration's case for going into Iraq was a lot more than this statement. Hell, I wouldn't even have remembered Bush had said it if it hadn't sparked so much brouhaha. This was not a vital part of Bush's case. It was hardly part of it at all.
Perhaps, as the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz writes, some people are just Boiling Mad Over Bush
As for CNN, they admitted to being little more than a propaganda mouthpiece for Saddam for years. If you think that's comperable to a single sentence being wrong, then there's no help for you. CNN lied to protect their access to Iraq; nothing more and nothing less.
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You don't know a damned thing about how Intel works, do you?
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