Well, well, is this a surprise?
Hardly. A presidential commission concludes that the US intelligence community was wrong in almost all of its prewar judgments about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.
Of course what's really interesting here is that there's no mention of the fact that there were factions in the intelligence community who did excellent intelligence work and who warned the executive that they were misinterpreting the information. And then of course there was the UN inspections body which was actually on the ground in Iraq and whose voice you would think would carry some weight. The executive here is nicely distancing itself from the intelligence community and shifting the blame over. In fact, the executive was hell bent on invading Iraq regardless of what the intelligence reports said. And they ignored Hans Blix for the simple reason that what he was saying didn't fit into their plans.
Oh yes, and now that we all know that intelligence can be deeply flawed and conflicting and contradictory - because after all, it's spywork - the US is nevertheless adamant about its policy of preemption. They might not know exactly what someone is threatening them with, or if they really are being threatened at all, but heck, they'll bomb them anyways.
US News Article | Reuters.com
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