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Originally Posted by Calgaryborn
Your confusing the public PR campaign with the information every Congressman and Senator had on their desk. The people who voted to go to war knew there were questions about some of the intelligence. I suspect there always is. What they had to determine is if the questions were large enough to out weigh the indicators which suggested there might be something. I imagine they also wieghed the cost of possibly being wrong either way.
Hans Blix's reports included reported delays whenever he asked to go somewhere which made it appear the Iraqis were hiding something. He also, reported that he couldn't find evidence of the disposal of some of their chemical weapons where they said they disposed of them.
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There was no indication that Iraq was a threat to anyone at all, even in the bull#### intel that Bush and the CIA 'sexed up' as the Brits called it.
Even the fake intel only suggested that Hussain sometime in the future might have the materials to do something, it was all bull as we now know but the intel was never more than a means to an end, the White House wanted to invade Iraq and then looked for reasons, that the reasons they dug up turned out to be false just adds insult to injury so to speak, but even if the intel had proved to be correct it would still not amounted to a reason to invade Iraq.