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Thread #98924 Message #1964865
Posted By: Teribus
12-Feb-07 - 11:12 AM
Thread Name: BS: Proof that Bush lied
Subject: RE: BS: Proof that Bush lied
"At the time, the security services provided the information that there were no WMDs"
Who? Where? And when? At the time the only information relating to what Iraq was thought to have was contained in the UNSCOM Report presented to the UN Security Council in January 1999.
Going back over Dr Hans Blix's last report to the UN Security Council after the UNMOVIC Inspection Teams had left Iraq in March 2003, even then he stated that he could no categoric assurance that Iraq did not hold any WMD, or that programmes relating to WMD had been abandoned.
What you are looking at is not the intelligence itself but the evaluation of that intelligence. Post-911, as far as the US was concerned it was always going to be the "worst case scenario" that would be advocated as the case for action.
Nobody lied, nobody acted in anything other than good faith, irrespective of how much some people on this forum would wish it otherwise.