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Originally Posted by Willravel
So some of intelligence was correct, and the intel was cherry picked. Yes, that's the conclusion that most people have now come to.
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I agree.
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George W. Bush was filtering his decision making process through his neo-conservative and anti-Iraq bias, which meant that he ignored the intelligence that contradicted his plans.
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Faulty conclusion. Or, perhaps there is a difference between "ignoring" intel and not giving it the same weight as other intel. It is very possible that he looked at all of the intel, carefully considered all of it, and still came to the conclusion to go to war.
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This is highly dependent on the weight of the decisions I must make. If I was given the responsibility of deciding whether or not the US should go to war, you had better believe that I'd spend day and night for as long as was possible to decide.
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Does it also depend on the consequences of time available? Did you see the movie Crimson Tide? What would you have done? Given we know how the movie turned out, its easy, but actually think about it.
Are you married? There have been many times when I have done tons of research, go with my wife to make a decision on something and she says something like "it doesn't feel right", and I change my view, even though the intel and data I had suggested otherwise, her "data" (gut) did not agree. Would that make me a lier?