Senate: Bush misused Iraq intelligence

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President George W. Bush and his top policymakers misstated Saddam Hussein's links to terrorism and ignored doubts among intelligence agencies about Iraq's arms programs as they made a case for war, the Senate intelligence committee reported on Thursday.

The report shows an administration that "led the nation to war on false premises," said the committee's Democratic Chairman, Sen. John Rockefeller of West Virginia. Several Republicans on the committee protested its findings as a "partisan exercise."

The committee studied major speeches by Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other officials in advance of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003, and compared key assertions with intelligence available at the time.

Statements that Iraq had a partnership with al Qaeda were wrong and unsupported by intelligence, the report said.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080605/pl_nm/iraq_usa_intelligence_dc

[O.M.B.inOhio]

1. Me to Senate: Duh!

Now hold them accountable!

[truedelphi]

2. I'm with you on that "Duh!" of yours

And how come 77 of the one hundred Senators couldn't wait to get up and announce how much support they wanted to throw behind the President.

They should have to answer also.

Senator Byrd of West VA was the only Senator who bothered with an elegant rebuttal to the War President's Uber decision to inflict a war on the Iraqi nation.

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. Damn, it only took them five years.

[driver8]

4. "Misstated"...

Nice way to say "lied".

[indie_voter]

5. Senate: The Earth is Round. n/t

[Disturbed]

6. Busholini, Darth & the rest of the Junta lied America into an

Illegal Invasion of Iraq.

So?

[indie_voter]

8. Impeachment. High Crimes and all... But I'm not holding my breath.

[Lex]

7. Simply put: High crimes and misdemeanors.

nt

[OwnedByFerrets]

9. Now do something about it, ya yellow-bellies...nt