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Disagreeable

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More on the Bush Bunch cherry picking the intelligence they wanted to use to invade Iraq. Excerpts; link below; my emphasis.

"A year after Bush administration claims about Iraqi "bioweapons trailers" were discredited by American experts, U.S. officials were still suppressing the findings, says a senior member of the CIA-led Iraq inspections team."

"The Washington Post reported last month that a U.S. fact-finding mission confidentially advised Washington on May 27, 2003, that two truck trailers found in Iraq were not mobile units for manufacturing bioweapons, as had been suspected.

Two days later, President Bush still asserted the trailers were bioweapons labs, and other administration officials repeated that line for months afterward."

"The debunking of the "mobile biolabs" claim began in classified reports long before the U.S. invasion, when German intelligence in 2001 and 2002 told U.S. officials that the story's source, an Iraqi defector code-named "Curveball," was unreliable, official investigations later found. U.N. inspectors determined in early 2003, before the war, that parts of Curveball's story were false.

In April 2003, however, two unusually equipped trailers were found in Iraq and the CIA declared they were the mobile biolabs described by the defector.

This story quickly fell apart behind the scenes, it has since emerged. Testing the equipment in early May 2003, U.S. experts found no traces of biological agents, and later that month the U.S. fact-finders filed their negative report from Baghdad."


"Ultimately the truth about the trailers was disclosed in the Iraq Survey Group's final report in October 2004, more than 16 months after the first conclusive findings were made."



More at the link:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060513/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_wmd_trailers
 

nonothing

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Dis,the troops are there,Its time to work on getting them ALL home safe....I am sure some lies have been told,that is another ugly fact of war...The troops cant leave Iraq yet,that country needs them.....You can blame their side or your side,but what does it matter.....What matters is getting the troops home and leaving the occupied country safe from itself,and able to build an infrastructure,that grows positivly over time.Maybe Bush is to blame,but even you dis,must see that the war itself will,if done properly,bring peace and humanitarian growth to what could at one time called a barbaric society...Start posting ways to help, then reason to why it started...If you truely care,get the troops home and work on builing a more unified and understanding world......Yes i know the task is daunting,but crying foul,just becomes more steps backwards.
 

Disagreeable

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nonothing said:
Dis,the troops are there,Its time to work on getting them ALL home safe....I am sure some lies have been told,that is another ugly fact of war...The troops cant leave Iraq yet,that country needs them.....You can blame their side or your side,but what does it matter.....What matters is getting the troops home and leaving the occupied country safe from itself,and able to build an infrastructure,that grows positivly over time.Maybe Bush is to blame,but even you dis,must see that the war itself will,if done properly,bring peace and humanitarian growth to what could at one time called a barbaric society...Start posting ways to help, then reason to why it started...If you truely care,get the troops home and work on builing a more unified and understanding world......Yes i know the task is daunting,but crying foul,just becomes more steps backwards.

No, I don't think this war, properly or improperly done, will being peace and humanitarian growth to Iraq. I posted a paper from the US Army War College that agreed with me: this war should never have been. You call the Iraqis "barbaric." I don't agree. They have their morals, their laws, their traditions. It's not our place to tell them they're wrong or "barbaric". Our troops have done their job; they've toppled Saddam. It's up to the Iraqis now to build their own country, with assistance from their neighbors and the rest of the world. Our soliders are simply targets today in Iraq. We're almost five months past the last election and Iraq still doesn't have a government. I wonder how many Americans have died in that five months?
 
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