Jumping the gun aren't you?
Sorry, Larry, but this is a story about a story about a story. And, it offers no reasonable corroborative evidence. But since we are on the subject of stories about stories, perhaps you should wait until you read this one:
Senate Report to Detail Iraq Intelligence Flaws
Wed Jul 7, 2004 09:42 PM ET
By Tabassum Zakaria
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Senate Intelligence Committee report this week will sharply criticize the CIA for a predisposed mindset that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction before the war, Senate and government officials said on Wednesday.
The report, scheduled for public release on Friday, will say that intelligence analysts did not question the long-held belief that Iraq had banned weapons and saw ambiguous information as supporting that view, a Senate source said.
The report was also expected to criticize intelligence agencies for using unreliable and inadequate sources.
"They used the thinnest sources to justify the grandest conclusions about weapons of mass destruction and other activity in Iraq," Sen. Richard Durbin, an Illinois Democrat on the panel, told Reuters.
The main U.S. justification for going to war against Iraq was the view that Baghdad posed a threat due to stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and was attempting to develop nuclear weapons. No large stockpiles of banned weapons have been found since the U.S. invasion last year.
The fact is, both Bush and Blair exaggerated claims about WMDs and Al Qaeda/Iraq ties in order to manipulate public opinion to go to war. It was a lie and to date, no one has been held accountible. Its amazing to me how the neocons went after Clinton for lying about an extra-marital affair, but vigorously excuse Bush/Cheney for making up claims to justify a war that has left thousands dead and hundreds of billions spent. It was an utter and unnecessary waste