Reply #9: Don't miss Moore's point...

[JHB]

If *'s intel was bad, it's because Cheney, Rumsfeld, and the rest of the PNAC Gallery appointed to the Pentagon and intel agencies MADE it bad, had them pay too much attention to sources tellingly code named "Curveball", and gennerally put pressure on the rank & file to come up with suitably alarming results.

Objectively, the intel flaws the committee found were not enough to justify Bush's chicken-little speecifying ("We have to act NOW or the sky will fall!")