Reply #87: 2003: Bush SILENCED War Critics in Intel Community

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It wasn't just DU that knew WTF these BFEE turds were up to. People in the intel business -- Patriots -- stood up the little turd from Crawford. Of course, they've all been canned, reassigned, driven out of office -- but they told the truth, which is more than Bushler has ever done.

White House Silenced Experts

who Questioned Iraq Intel Info Six Months before War

by Jason Leopold

Six months before the United States was dead-set on invading Iraq to rid the country of its alleged weapons of mass destruction, experts in the field of nuclear science warned officials in the Bush administration that intelligence reports showing Iraq was stockpiling chemical and biological weapons was unreliable and that the country did not pose an imminent threat to its neighbors in the Middle East or the U.S.

But the dissenters were told to keep quiet by high-level administration officials in the White House because the Bush administration had already decided that military force would be used to overthrow the regime of Iraq’s President Saddam Hussein, interviews and documents have revealed.

The most vocal opponent to intelligence information supplied by the CIA to the hawks in the Bush administration about the so-called Iraqi threat to national security was David Albright, a former United Nations weapons inspector and the president and founder of the Institute for Science and International Security, a Washington, D.C. based group that gathers information for the public and the White House on nuclear weapons programs.

With the likelihood of finding WMD in Iraq becoming increasingly remote, new information, such as documents and interviews provided by Albright and other weapons experts, prove that the White House did not suffer so much from an intelligence failure on Iraq’s WMD, but instead shows how the Bush administration embellished reams of intelligence and relied on murky intelligence in order to get Congress and the public to back the war. That may explain why it is becoming so difficult to find WMD: Because it’s entirely likely that the weapons don’t exist.

“A critical question is whether the Bush Administration has deliberately misled the public and other governments in playing a "nuclear card" that it knew would strengthen public support for war,” Albright said in a March 10 assessment of the CIA’s intelligence, which is posted on the ISIS website.

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http://globalresearch.ca/articles/LEO306D.html

Thanks for the kick, oasis! Technical problems last night, family obligations today. I'll try and find a few things later this nochy to make this thread much more BFEE-unfriendly.