Donald Rumsfeld Says Iraq War Intelligence 'Part Of The Problem' With Syria, But Denies Manipulation

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Donald Rumsfeld Says Iraq War Intelligence 'Part Of The Problem' With Syria, But Denies Manipulation

The Huffington Post | By Luke Johnson

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/05/donald-rumsfeld-syria-iraq_n_3872581.html?utm_hp_ref=politics

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"I suppose it's part of the problem," Rumsfeld said on CNN's "New Day" of how Iraq intelligence failures affect the chance for a Syria strike.

"You know if intelligence were a fact, it would be called a fact, and not intelligence," he said. "And I think when Colin Powell went before the United Nations with George Tenet, the director of intelligence, and talked about the intelligence they had in great detail, and then it turned out that stockpiles were not found, that people were cautious and began to recognize that intelligence is intelligence and not necessarily a fact."

Rumsfeld moved to criticize President Barack Obama, saying he didn't think Iraq was really the problem in terms of forming a coalition around a Syria strike. "I think what's going on here is almost any president in my adult life I think would have provided stronger leadership and greater clarity, and as a result generated broader support in the international community and in the country and in the Congress," he said.

Just after the Iraq invasion, Rumsfeld seemed very sure of the intelligence the U.S. government had. "We know where they are," he said of the WMDs in an ABC News interview in 2003. "They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat. Second, the facilities, there are dozens of them. It's a large geographic area."

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1. Aw Rumsfield, trying to control the narrative always.... his fault Americans do not want

to get involved in being the world's policemen. Good luck with the "re-history".