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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry
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To: CalculatedRisk who wrote (34867)7/10/2004 10:13:03 PM
From: ChinuSFO of 81568
 
EDITORIAL OPINION

Mistakes must not be repeated

THE spectacular failure of intelligence services in the lead-up to the Iraq war will reverberate in many countries - including Australia - for years to come.

A US Senate inquiry has exposed the blunders behind the information used to build a case for war.

There were a series of failures, overstated or flawed analysis, inaccuracies, a reliance on information from dissidents who had their own agendas, and evidence of "group thinking" rather than objective individual thought.

<font color=red>The finding adds to the theory some services were pressured to deliver conclusions their political masters wanted to hear to justify military action.

<font color=black>The result was a pre-emptive war based on the now-certainly flawed conclusion Iraq was building weapons of mass destruction.

As US President George W Bush and Prime Minister John Howard go to the polls, the realisation by ordinary people –read voters – that they were misled into going to war will surely play a part at the ballot box.

The removal of Saddam Hussein and the replacement of his regime by a fledgling democracy is welcome.

Saddam was a tyrant and his regime run by a murderous bunch of thugs which the world is a better place without.

However, the end does not always justify the means.

A comprehensive overhaul of intelligence services is needed to pinpoint how and why they failed and ensure the mistakes are not repeated.

The trail of civilian and military casualties is grim proof the term military intelligence is sometimes an oxymoron.

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