[Vision2020] No Iraq Weapons Intelligence Failure: Correction

[Aldoussoma@aol.com]

All:

Somehow my last post was sent unintentionally and incomplete.

I intended to write:

Let's end this nonsense about intelligence failures leading to the invasion of Iraq.  I will not list sources here, because anyone with a modest effort can find these sources on their own, and if someone does not care enough to educate themselves about a multi-billion dollar war killing thousands, they deserve to be misled by spin and propaganda.

Let's pick just one argument used by the Bush administration:  the "mushroom cloud" from a nuclear weapon against America referred to by Bush in a speech as a dire warning to justify an immediate pre-emptive invasion of Iraq.

There was good intelligence before the invasion of Iraq that Iraq did NOT possess an immanent nuclear weapons threat, that in fact they had no nuclear weapons or the capability to deliver them.  The aluminum tubes that were cited by the Bush administration as evidence of nuclear weapons production were known before the invasion to NOT be related to nuclear fuel processing.  Also, the yellow cake claimed to be sourced from Niger that was cited by the Bush administration as evidence of Iraq attempting to develop nuclear weapons was known to be a false claim before the invasion. 

These are just two examples of falsehoods spread by the Bush administration when in fact the intelligence existed before the invasion to demonstrate they were falsehoods.

The claims that the Bush administration was misled by intelligence failures is spin to cover up the fact that the Bush administration lied or "misrepresented" to the American people the immanent danger of an attack from Iraq to create a climate of fear, to whip up a war fervor for an an invasion of Iraq that was in the works since the 1990s.  And as recently revealed by former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, as soon as Bush took office the agenda to invade Iraq was pushed in terms of how to accomplish the goal rather than posing the question of whether the invasion was wise.

Ted Moffett