As for Atta, I figured you'd bring that up. As you may have noticed, the article noted reports of up to FOUR meetings over a period of years, not one. The author also noted that one of the reported meetings is seriously doubted by US intelligence services and another is subject to seemingly conflicting information. Finally, he reminds us that Czech intelligence officials stand by ALL of their reports of meetings.
Well if one of the meetings can be shown to have not occurred, and a second meeting is doubtable, then the other two which can only be corroborated by the Czech intelligence officials, which are known to be incorrect about 2 of the meetings, puts the remaining 2 meetings in doubt as well. Personally, I don't want foreign policy decisions to be based on Czech intelligence.
It's like the intelligence that said that Saddam was reconstituting nukes. And had WMD ready to launch in 45 minutes. And had unmanned drones to deliver them, and had missiles to deliver them. All false. And all punctuated by the now infamous "we don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud" speeches.
Frankly this throws a cloud over all the intelligence, how it was gathered and how it was used. Hopefully the intelligence committee will be able to make sense of it all, because it's clear that the public won't get to see much on these matters. Unfortunately they are locked in political bickering and finger pointing. This will further obscure the truth. Same as the 28 blacked out pages in the 9-11 report.
This is not about hating Bush, it's about questioning why he is doing things that are unprecedented in the history of our country. One has to wonder how much influence the neocons in this administration have had in dictating policy. Especially when these guys have been on the record for more than a decade that invading Iraq was a good idea.
I think the reasons that we went to war were far more related to the neocon ideology than they were about the war on terror.
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