It's report card time and we flunked Iraq

[CatWoman]

Millions of parents shared satisfaction or disappointment as their schoolchildren brought home report cards recently.

All of us should be deeply disturbed by the report card our government has received for its reason for going to war in Iraq (news - web sites).

"We were almost all wrong," former chief U.S. weapons inspector David Kay said about President Bush (news - web sites)'s repeated claim that Saddam Hussein (news - web sites) had weapons of mass destruction that posed an imminent threat to us.

"Almost all wrong" means an "F" on any report card.


This week, Bush said he would appoint a committee to take a year or so to figure out why we flunked Iraq and whom to blame.


What Bush needs to understand: Nearly all of us think Iraq is better off without Saddam in power. But most are beginning to wonder whether it was worth the mounting price in lives and monumental dollars. And now many think the pre-war WMD scare was stupid or trumped up or both.

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2. Ten Million people who protested around the world...

...were not wrong.

All the CIA, MI-6, and Australian intelligence agents who stated that Iraq had no WMD....were not wrong.
Hans Blix....was not wrong.
Scott Ritter.....was not wrong.

I and many, many others on DU...were not wrong.

Invading Iraq...WAS WRONG!

[Beetwasher]

3. Tell It to George Tenet

Who just defended his intelligence that he gave to the Chimp and said it was accurate and that THERE WAS NO IMMINENT THREAT.

Now take a look at what the Chimp and his minions were saying to sell the war:

• The danger to our country is grave and it is growing. The Iraqi regime possesses biological and chemical weapons, is rebuilding the facilities to make more and, according to the British government, could launch a biological or chemical attack in as little as 45 minutes after the order is given. The regime has long-standing and continuing ties to terrorist groups, and there are Al Qaeda terrorists inside Iraq. This regime is seeking a nuclear bomb, and with fissile material could build one within a year. (G.W. Bush, Sept. 28, 2002)

Sounds like an imminent threat to me. Now who was wrong? Not the CIA, who never made any of the above claims in their intel. Care to continue w/ your idiocy?