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Originally Posted by Giantone  Ken , what I believe to be true is this ....notice the dates. http://www.salon.com/opinion/blument...9/06/bush_wmd/
Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction
Salon exclusive: Two former CIA officers say the president squelched top-secret intelligence, and a briefing by George Tenet, months before invading Iraq.
By Sidney Blumenthal
Sept. 6, 2007 | On Sept. 18, 2002, CIA director George Tenet briefed President Bush in the Oval Office on top-secret intelligence that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction, according to two former senior CIA officers. Bush dismissed as worthless this information from the Iraqi foreign minister, a member of Saddam's inner circle, although it turned out to be accurate in every detail. Tenet never brought it up again.
Nor was the intelligence included in the National Intelligence Estimate of October 2002, which stated categorically that Iraq possessed WMD. No one in Congress was aware of the secret intelligence that Saddam had no WMD as the House of Representatives and the Senate voted, a week after the submission of the NIE, on the Authorization for Use of Military Force in Iraq. The information, moreover, was not circulated within the CIA among those agents involved in operations to prove whether Saddam had WMD. |
Now you need to watch for tell-tale phrases in news reports, like "former CIA officers and “unidentified sources”. For if any of this was the truth you can bet your ass that Congress would have had impeachment charges drafted and served up faster then the speed of light given their love for the President. The fact that not a single article of impeachment has been advanced on these issues leads one of reasonable mind to believe that either none of this is true or that it was embellished in such a manner as to be considered nothing more then the ravings of disgruntled employees and of no merit.
Again all you have are innuendos of alleged bad acts published in a news article that if they could hold up to any scrutiny they would have led to Congressional action. The lack of action tells the real story.
Don't believe everything you read or hear from the media. They have been known to be generators of lies themselves.