[Lanny_MacDonald]

Originally Posted by Azure

How did they lie?

Originally Posted by Azure

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.

Not true in any shape or form. Congress does NOT have full access to information, especially intelligence data. The only ones who had access to the reports that Bush and Cheney used to cook up the evidence were on the Senate Intelligence Committee. The name escapes me right now, but the Democratic head of that committee demanded that the reports be provided to Congress and Cheney sent him a tersely worded email that basically told him to keep his nose out of the affairs of the White House. The information that Congress was working with was hand-picked and grossly flawed. The Silberman-Robb Commission report stated as much.

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.

You don’t recall anything correctly. Cheney and Wolfowitz had complete control over the intel that was gathered and had final say on what information was included or rejected. There was also a great level of discord in the intelligence community over the handling of the data that lead to war.