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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
Bush and his cronies flat-out lied. They lied to everyone about everything. I don't know what intelligence reports you are talking about specifically, but I'm pretty sure they weren't handing out reports that let everyone know they were lying.
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How did they lie?
Every report that Bush and his administration used to orchestrate the war was available to everyone in Congress. Even if Dean wants to say that the intelligence they received was 'corrupt'....nothing was mentioned in the Senate Report in the intelligence gathered on Iraq leading up the war.
Also, Bush and his 'cronies' do not generate intelligence. And like I said earlier, there was almost 100% support from the US intelligence community in regards to the intelligence they found. IIRC, the only thing some had a problem with was the 'nuclear'....side to the whole equation.
So until you provide evidence to prove that Bush lied....you're wrong.
You'll probably be hard-pressed to find it to...considering that nothing in the Senate report mentioned anything about 'lying'.
Nor does it mention anything about falsely generated evidence.
Nothing.
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Now it's certainly debatable/valid that the Democrats and Congress should have voted against this war, but very little of the blame lies on them. The people who make the real decisions made the real decisions.
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Sure.
Congress has to declare war. Like Hoz said...the whole 'checks and balances' side to this didn't exist.
They were as dubious to the whole idea as Bush and his 'cronies.'
Including Tenet.
I mean, when the Director of the CIA comes and tells you its a 'slam dunk' case....what would you do?
Not really.