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Originally Posted by Nage Waza

If you laugh at people that swallowed the WMD issue, then you sir should be laughed at. The US intelligence has officially apologized for being incorrect about the WMDs. If you think for a second there was some conspiracy, you are wrong.

What part of the bolded part of my post did you not understand?

The intelligence wasn't wrong. It was F-I-X-E-D.
The facts weren't wrong. They were F-I-X-E-D.
Fixing of intelligence and Facts = a damn good conspiracy in my world.

Not from a left wing loonie. From the head of MI6 reporting back to Downing street after a meeting with the head of CIA.

Here .... Take the McClellan challenge. http://thinkprogress.org/2005/05/24/...lan-challenge/

INTEL: In 1997, the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) released a report saying there was no indication Iraq ever achieved nuclear capability or had any physical capacity for producing weapons-grade nuclear material in the near future. In February 2001, the CIA delivered a report to the White House that said: “We do not have any direct evidence that Iraq has used the period since Desert Fox to reconstitute its weapons of mass destruction programs.”
HOW IT WAS USED: In March 2003, Cheney definitively claimed on Meet the Press that Iraq “has reconstituted nuclear weapons.”

INTEL: In April 2001, the the Energy Department told the White House the aluminum tubes Iraq bought couldn’t be used for nuclear weapons production. In late 2001, the State Department also sent word they were ill-suited for that use.
HOW IT WAS USED: On Sept. 8, 2002, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice told CNN the tubes were “only really suited for nuclear weapons programs.” Bush in his 1/03 State of the Union said the tubes which were “suitable for nuclear weapons production.”

INTEL: In the fall of 2002, the CIA told white house officials not to include the uranium-from-Niger assertion in speeches.
HOW IT WAS USED: Bush included it in his 2003 State of the Union.

INTEL: A September 2002 DOD intel report found “”no reliable information on whether Iraq is producing and stockpiling chemical weapons, or where Iraq has — or will — establish its chemical warfare agent production facilities.”
HOW IT WAS USED: In October 2002, Bush claimed, without doubt, that Iraq “possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons.”

And they apologised for being "incorrect?". They were blatantly misrepresented. Laugh -out-loud.