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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
They were never held accountable. And let's not sugar coat it. Bush and his coleagues didn't just act upon wrong intelligence; they flat out fabricated it to get what they wanted. Bush was going to invade Iraq and wouldn't take no for an answer.
Not really that much different than Canadian elections really. I don't think the U.S. has a monopoly dirty politics.
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Nothing was fabricated. The intelligence Congress had was the exact same as the President had. It suggested that Iraq had something going on. It was sketchy and turned out to be wrong but, it wasn't fabricated. Both the CIA and their British counterparts agreed that it appeared Iraq were up to something.
Did Bush embellish the certainty of his conclusions to the American public? Of course he did. When your about to declare war you don't express doubts about the cause. The point remains that he and both Houses were convinced that they needed to act based on the intelligence available. With 9/11 not too far in the rear view mirror it's not suprising that they didn't err on the side of caution.
Bush may not have paid too heavy a price. But the Republicans did lose the 2008 election soundly. They effectively lost any influence in government for 2 years and only hold one House today.