Hindsight's a marvelous thing isn't it Amos, I note you do not give the dates of those "cut'n'pastes" - 23rd January, 2008

Unfortunately your President had to deal with the information that was known at that time and the evaluation of that intelligence by the experts available to him at that time. Maybe the President was doubly unfortunate in that as far as the US Intelligence and Security Agencies went, they were still headed up and manned by and large by exactly the same men who had advised George W. Bush's predecessor in 1998, that Iraq constituted a threat to the United States of America. Although having said that, I can see no reason why men in those positions would, under such circumstances, not do their jobs conscientiously to the best of their professional ability.

In both your links, particularly the second one from "democratic underground.com" of a 27th August, 2006 edit of something originally posted on 23 November, 2005, their greatest failure is to not actually separate the attacks of 11th September, 2001 from what was evaluated as constituting the greatest threat of attack to the United States of America.

The two things are completely separate and totally different in scale and nature. The only relevance of 911 was that it demonstrated the frightening degree of the vulnerability of the United States of America to an asymmetric attack.