Reply #119: I didn't trust it because it was bullshit.

[Warren Stupidity]

Power point drawings of 'mobile weapons labs'?
Pictures of a truck that moved?
That evidence? :wtf:

They had absolutely nothing concrete. It was clear as a bell. Of course you cannot prove that something doesn't exist, but you cannot go to war on the basis of 'but they could have had WMD' any more than you can shoot innocents on the streets of London because they 'might have been suicide bombers'.

"But if Powell or Kay just refused to present this evidence to the UN without evidence it was wrong and the claims were true it would've been a disaster."

They had no evidence. The stuff they took to the UN? They made that shit up. Some of it was so bogus that they only used it for domestic consumption - the niger connection.

They had Bolton running around threatening anyone who dared to speak up with their jobs. There are lots of ex-CIA analysts who have laid out the case that there was nothing to go on, that the 'evidence' they presented was patently bogus, and worse that there was plenty of evidence that Iraq had dismantled all of their programs. Why do you think they screwed Wilson? What on earth do you think that the Downing Street Memos prove? They were fixing the freaking intelligence and everybody on the inside knew it. Powell included.