Your opinion on that matter, would be thoroughly refuted by the likes of the NIE, CIA, and nearly every other country's intellgence agencies, including that of the UN. Just because they got it wrong, doesn't mean it didn't exist
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I have read articles in the New Yorker and Harpers that refute all this crap.
Op-eds disputing the facts are common place, when this topic comes up. Facts are messers CIA, NIE, and the vast majority of the rest of the world's intel agencies claimed Saddam had his stockpiles, and that Iraq contined to have ties with militant Islamists, both direct and indirect. Facts are that investigation after investigation after the fact found no unehtical or illegal manipulation of the intel.
So are your left with are op-eds and
unsubstantiated opinions that those facts are somehow bogus, or that it was 1 big massive cover-up, or that Bush hoodwinked everyone, or that little green men actually roam the dark side of Venus, yada, blah, etc. In other words, you read other people's opinions who have no connection what-so-ever to the intelligence gathering apparati, that dovetail with your opinion, and claim "taadaaaaa.......Bush lied us into war"
Whatever makes you feel better, Xo
Had the various European intel services really believed the lying crap Juniorbush, Rumsfeld and Cheney was spouting, they would have joined in the invasion, just as they did in the first Iraq War. Observe how they did nothing of the kind.
Again, WRONG. France was even up front in claiming, yes, we know Saddam has them, but we're still not authorising anything. Doing nothing doesn't equate to the conclusions brought forth by their intelligence agencies, not existing. Recall, they weren't attacked on 911. They had very little reason to invade. We were attacked, we were told of these connections Saddam had with Islamic militants, by the intelligence agences, some of whom had just murdered 3000 american citizens with simple box cutters. It was really unthinkable to consider what they might do if they could get their hands on some of Saddam's WMD, even if it was small cannisters of Mustard Gas, or Sarin