9/11--Iraq WMD: 2 major intelligence failures on Bush's watch

[skjpm]

I mean, how bad a President do you have to be? You allow Americans to be attacked on our own soil, and then you send them to die in an unnecessary war. How can any patriotic American of any stripe support this guy?

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. The intelligence failure, was the failure of Bu$h's brain

who was too bored to bother his beautiful mind with any Intel that might disagree with his plans to implement the PNAC agenda for his daddy's buddies.

[lovedems]

2. Intelligence failure should be the dems mantra for the entire year.

But it should be applied to *'s intelligence failure. He is such a dumbass.

[skjpm]

3. yes, the words "intelligence probe" conjure up. . .

images of where they should stick the tube in Bush to find the intelligence.

[NewJeffCT]

4. Oh, please, it is all Clinton's fault

9/11 and Iraq nothing to do with ignoring Hart-Rudman or the fact that Clinton destroyed any remaining WMD in '98...

[Rolling Titanic]

5. Didn't Rumsfeld say just a few months ago

that the intelligence had not changed (since the Clinton Administration) only the way of looking at it post-9-11? I could swear he said exactly that. And if that is the case, there could not a fortiori, be an "intelligence failure".

[Rolling Titanic]

6. Here it is

The coalition did not act in Iraq because we had discovered dramatic new evidence of Iraq's pursuit of weapons of mass murder," Rumsfeld said.

He said the terrorist strikes on New York and Washington in 2001 "changed our appreciation of our vulnerability" to attacks with chemical, biological or nuclear weapons.

http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/07/10/sprj.irq.wmd/

(CBS/AP) Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Wednesday told Congress that the U.S. invaded Iraq not because of a new threat of weapons of mass destruction but because of new fears they might be used.

"The coalition did not act in Iraq because we had discovered dramatic new evidence of Iraq's pursuit of weapons of mass murder," Rumsfeld said. "We acted because we saw the existing evidence in a new light through the prism of our experience on Sept. 11."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/07/09/iraq/main562451.shtml