US media questions Bush's justification for war

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Vol XXVII NO. 113 Sunday 11 July 2004

Gulf Daily News

US media questions Bush's justification for war

WASHINGTON: A Senate probe into CIA failures in pre-war Iraq intelligence made headlines in US newspapers, which questioned yesterday how US President George W Bush and his war planners used the data to justify the war. "Sadly, the investigation stopped without assessing how Bush had used the incompetent intelligence reports to justify war," The New York Times said in an editorial yesterday.

That matter will be addressed in a second part of the Senate report on the Bush administration's use of intelligence to convince the world to go to war. Bush's decision to go to war is a major issue ahead of the November 2 presidential election. The Times editorial said the investigation also "left open the question of whether (intelligence) analysts thought they were doing what Mr Bush wanted" in supplying evidence to go to war.

"No one had to pressure analysts to change their findings, because the findings were determined before the work started," the daily said. The Los Angeles Times wondered: "Did the White House pressure the CIA to concoct reasons to invade Iraq?" The Washington Post said: "Mr Bush, Vice-President (Dick) Cheney and other senior officials sometimes exaggerated the flawed intelligence they were given, even if they were correct in identifying Iraq as a threat."

However, Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz, a lead architect in the US-led war on Iraq, insisted that the war was justified.

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[gmoney]

1. It's about freakin' time

"US Media briefly extracts head from rectum."

[Maat]

2. Exactly.

n/t.

[LittleApple81]

3. Precise description. And briefly is the keyword here. n/t