From a New York Times editorial, 10/23/04:
http://nytimes.com/2004/10/23/opinion/23sat1.html
How to Skew Intelligence
It's long been obvious that the allegations about Saddam Hussein's
dangerous weapons and alliance with Osama bin Laden were false.
But as the election draws closer, the remaining question is to what
extent President Bush's team knew the allegations were wrong and used
them anyway to persuade Americans to back the invasion of Iraq.
A report issued Thursday by the senior Democrat on the Senate Armed
Services Committee, Carl Levin of Michigan, shows that on the question
of an Iraqi-Qaeda axis, Mr. Bush, Vice President ***** Cheney and
others offered an indictment that was essentially fabricated in the
office of Douglas Feith, the under secretary of defense for policy.
Mr. Levin's report does not prove that President Bush knew that the
Hussein-bin Laden alliance was fiction.
But officials like Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his deputy,
Paul Wolfowitz - as well as Mr. Cheney's chief of staff and the deputy
national security adviser - knew that Mr. Feith's tailored conclusions
were contrary to the views of the entire intelligence community.
Mr. Cheney presented them to the public as confirmed truth about Iraq
and Al Qaeda.
The Levin report is a primer on how intelligence can be cooked to fit
a political agenda.
It is another sad reminder of this administration's refusal to hold
anyone accountable for the way the public was led into the war with
Iraq.
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As of today 1103 American troops have lost their lives in Bush's
insane war.
Harry
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