The bottom line is that they didn't lie, they had some bad intelligence - along with the ENTIRE REST OF THE WORLD. Saddam's own cabinet thought he had WMDs!
Even Ken Pollack, whose authorship of an influential pro-war book renders him understandably reluctant to admit an error, did so yesterday in the NYT Magazine. And the reason he made it, you guessed it right, is bad intelligence.
I'd like to hear how its the US's fault that Israel had it wrong, that Germany had it wrong, that the Brits had it wrong, the Russians, too, ad nauseam.
But even so, the Daulfer report suggests something you were aware of a long time ago, namely, that there were tantalizing bits of evidence suggesting that there was a transfer of WMD from Iraq to Syria.
I guess we were supposed to take the word of a homicidal maniac, swallow it whole. |
