A huge failure of Intelligence (BBC report)

[progressivedancer]

Isn't it fucked up how people are just beginning to go "maybe there wasn't any WMDs." No shit sherlock.



A huge failure of intelligence

By Paul Reynolds
BBC News Online world affairs correspondent


The report of the Iraq Survey Group should put an end to a saga which will go down as one of the great failures in the history of intelligence.

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Opponents of the war will quite simply feel vindicated. For them it was an open and shut case which has now been finally shut. Iraq had no weapons and the inspections would have revealed this if they had been allowed to continue.

The assessment that Saddam Hussein was a potential threat provides an escape clause for proponents of the war, even though it was not the basis on which the decision to attack was taken. The basis for war was that he was an imminent, not a potential threat.

[KlatooBNikto]

1. Did it occur to anyone that this failure was intentional?

[progressivedancer]

2. give them time

give them time. Maybe in a couple of months, they (you know who) will have an epiphany that goes like this "Hey! they did it on purpose, they lied to us. The Gays did it!"