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Originally posted by j8ear
Continuing to point out 'mistakes' or lack of substantiation of the governments claims, whether bush, cheney, powell, clinton, albright, or other and calling them lies, especially when someone comes forward again, and fesses up to the mistake or failures is disengenous at best.
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Well, for me, enough proof is there to call it a lie. It appears from what I have gathered so far is that the Bush Administration allowed itself to be misled by a single set of misinformation created by Iraqi expats who had a vested interest in the USA invading Iraq.
here's a transcript from June of 2003:
http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/arms/03062706.htm
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Question: Mr. Secretary, are those analysts in INR Bureau now as confident as the CIA was that the mobile vans are, in fact, for biological warfare?
Secretary Powell: Their confidence level is increasing. They still have some questions, and those questions are well known to the CIA. But I have confidence in the judgment of the CIA that they are for the purpose of developing biological weapons. It's been studied very thoroughly. But we're -- there are still some questions that are being looked at and analyzed. And Carl Ford has been out to the CIA to share all of the ideas and judgments and different alternative considerations that should be applied to the analysis.
And so we have been in complete open analysis with, you know, having a complete open analysis with the CIA, and the Director of Central Intelligence remains confident of his judgment. And frankly, I haven't seen anything to suggest that that judgment is wrong. And so we are sticking with the judgment of the DCI. He is the one who has the best position to analyze all of the information and to make this judgment. And INR participates in the work of the intelligence community, but ultimately, it is the DCI who makes the judgment.
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Frankly, to get from that statement to an "oops, it wasn't a weapons trailer, and by the way, our intelligence was wrong and we should have never thought they had mobile weapons trailers in the first place" requires, for me, an assumption of an evil purpose on the part of the Bush Administration.
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