Questions About Iraq Weapons Haunt U.S. Election Year

[papau]

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/politics/politics-iraq-usa-weapons.html

Questions About Iraq Weapons Haunt U.S. Election Year
By REUTERS


Filed at 0:46 a.m. ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The failure to find Iraqi weapons of mass destruction looks set to dog the Bush administration in an election year amid persistent accusations it exaggerated evidence in making a case for war.

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a liberal-leaning U.S. think tank, issued a report on Thursday that compared public and declassified intelligence information with statements made by administration officials.It concluded that the administration made the threat from Iraq sound more dire than the underlying information.<snip>

Mathews said this was an example of how a possibility cited by the inspectors became a likelihood and then a stockpile in Bush's speech.<snip>

(Joseph Cirincione)”In that process they changed something that is an opinion into a fact, and they consistently did this,'' he said at a briefing on the report.<snip>

Former CIA Director Stansfield Turner said he was in general agreement with the Carnegie presentation, and that he believed no Iraqi weapons of mass destruction had been found for several reasons.
``A combination of the intelligence people overestimating what was there, policy people exaggerating the intelligence estimates, combined with the fact that the inspections and destruction by the U.N. from '91 to '98 eliminated a lot of these and made it very difficult for the Iraqis to start it up again because they couldn't get the materials or the equipment,'' he told Reuters.

[bushisanidiot]

1. Rove Will "Find" WMD. He's Just Baiting The Dem. Candidates.

of course, it'll be proven months or years later that the "found" WMD were planted, but none of it will matter because it won't get U.S. media coverage.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

2. either that or

we'll "get" Bin Laden

[Beetwasher]

3. "Liberal Leaning US Think Tank"

When the NYT quotes the Heritage Foundation or one of these rightwing lunatic orgs, do they label it as a "conservative leaning" think tank? Just wondering...

[leftchick]

4. moon mars moon mars moon mars moon mars moon mars moon mars

It won't change a thing. The whore media is doing the 24/7 thing on moon mars fake news story. Wolfie is fucking breathless right now with this brilliant new idea from boosh*

[yellowcanine]

5. As well they should

If the Dems can't make an issue out of this they deserve to lose.

Lying about WMDs.
Lying about Saddam-Osama connections.
Lying about "chemical trailers".
Lying about long distance drones.
Lying about uranium from Africa.
Leaking name of Valerie Plume to Novak.
Lying about Plume leak.
Lying about 9-11.