Hmmmmmmmm?

According to former CIA agent, Paul R, Pillar, Bush "'cherry picked' intellegence on Iraq to justify a decision that had it already had reached to go to war, and of ignoring warnings that the country could easily fall into violence and chaos after an invasion to overthrow Saddam Husssen".

Pillar, who was the national intellegence officer for the Near East from 2000 to 2005, went on to say, "It has become clear that official intellegence was not relied on in making even the most most significant national security decisions, that intellegence was misused publicly to justify decisions already made, that damaging ill will developed between [Bush] policy makers and intellegence officers, and that the intellegence community's own work was politicized".

BTW, Pillar was considwered to be the agency's leading counterterrorist analyst.

Source: The Wsahington Post, Feb. 10th, 2006, "Ex-CIA Officail Faults Use of Data on Iraq", Page A-1...

Bobert