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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (442441)8/13/2003 5:32:17 PM
From: Orcastraiter  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 769670
 
How about those now famous 16 words for starters. That same intelligence was deemed bunk 4 months earlier and was removed from a presidential speech in October of 2002. Strange that the same bunk ends up in the SOTU speech, in a collection of what was later called "Darn Good" intelligence. All of which has turned out to be bunk.

That kind of irresponsible use of intelligence in the SOTU amounts to incompetence at the very least, and blatant lies at the worst.

Orca



To: one_less who wrote (442441)8/13/2003 11:12:33 PM
From: Doug R  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 769670
 
Bush had said that intelligence gathered by the United States and other nations had determined--"no doubt"--that Hussein possessed WMDs, and he had declared that the Iraqi dictator was "dealing" with al Qaeda.
Intelligence analysts had attached caveats and qualifiers to their assessments of the WMD threat from Iraq (which Bush never bothered to mention) and that there had been no good intelligence linking Hussein with bin Laden.


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