Reply #6: Bunch of B.S. [View All]

[Martin Eden]

I didn't bother reading much past this paragraph:

"Every intelligence agency in the Western world - regardless of how its government viewed the legitimacy of the war in Iraq - believed the same thing. So did former President Bill Clinton's national security team. So did United Nations weapons inspectors and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan."

This simply isn't true. Most intelligence agencies assumed that Iraq still maintained some bio-chem stock to one degree or another, but they did not all believe the same thing!

The assertions coming out of the Bush administration were quantitatively and qualitatively more dire than was generally accepted concerning bio-chem, and the state of Saddam's nuclear program was a subject of considerable disagreement. About the same time the UN team was announcing there was no evidence of a revived nuclear program, Cheney was saying he believe Iraq had indeed "reconstituted nuclear weapons."

And when it comes to an operational nexus between the secular regime in Iraq and the al Qaeda terrorists, the pronouncments of Bush & co. weren't even in sync with the CIA's own conclusions.

This Newsday article is an attempt to spin this entire issue to make it look like the entire world was totally mistaken about Iraq's WMD stockpiles. It's a load of bullshit, and is a discredit to the publication.