Neglecting Intelligence, Ignoring Warnings

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Neglecting Intelligence, Ignoring Warnings

January 28, 2004
A chronology of how the Bush Administration repeatedly and deliberately refused to listen to intelligence agencies that said its case for war was weak


OCTOBER 8, 1997 – IAEA SAYS IRAQ FREE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS:
FEBRUARY 23 & 24, 2001 – COLIN POWELL SAYS IRAQ IS CONTAINED:
SEPTEMBER 16, 2001 – CHENEY ACKNOWLEDGES IRAQ IS CONTAINED:
SEPTEMBER 2001 – WHITE HOUSE CREATES OFFICE TO CIRCUMVENT INTEL AGENCIES:
JANUARY, 2002 – TENET DOES NOT MENTION IRAQ IN NUCLEAR THREAT REPORT:
FEBRUARY 6, 2002 – CIA SAYS IRAQ HAS NOT PROVIDED WMD TO TERRORISTS:
APRIL 15, 2002 – WOLFOWITZ ANGERED AT CIA FOR NOT UNDERMINING U.N. REPORT:
SUMMER, 2002 – CIA WARNINGS TO WHITE HOUSE EXPOSED: “In the late
SEPTEMBER, 2002 – DIA TELLS WHITE HOUSE NO EVIDENCE OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS:
SEPTEMBER 20, 2002 – DEPT. OF ENERGY TELLS WHITE HOUSE OF NUKE DOUBTS:
OCTOBER 2002 – CIA DIRECTLY WARNS WHITE HOUSE:
OCTOBER 2002 — STATE DEPT. WARNS WHITE HOUSE ON NUKE CHARGES:
OCTOBER 2002 – AIR FORCE WARNS WHITE HOUSE: “
LATE 2002-EARLY 2003 – CHENEY PRESSURES CIA TO CHANGE INTELLIGENCE:
JANUARY, 2003 – STATE DEPT. INTEL BUREAU REITERATE WARNING TO POWELL:
FEBRUARY 14, 2003 – UN WARNS WHITE HOUSE THAT NO WMD HAVE BEEN FOUND:
FEBRUARY 15, 2003 – IAEA WARNS WHITE HOUSE NO NUCLEAR EVIDENCE:
FEBURARY 24, 2003 – CIA WARNS WHITE HOUSE ‘NO DIRECT EVIDENCE’ OF WMD:
MARCH 7, 2003 – IAEA REITERATES TO WHITE HOUSE NO EVIDENCE OF NUKES:
MAY 30, 2003 – INTEL PROFESSIONALS ADMIT THEY WERE PRESSURED:
JUNE 6, 2003 – INTELLIGENCE HISTORIAN SAYS INTEL WAS HYPED:


Neglecting Intelligence, Ignoring Warnings | Center for American Progress

The reason we are in a mess economically and militarily bogged down in Afghanistan and Iraq now and has a expanding deficit is because of the businessman you put in office. We are still and will be for decades feel the effect of Bush's screw up and he should be held accountable for his lies and war crimes.
What bush did in his 8 years, ignoring 911 warnings and illegal and costly war in Iraq is relevant to what is happening today and will affect us for decades to come. Has everything to do with the economy and foreign policies. The debt and the wars, the tax cuts were not by a miracle disappear when Bush left office. Wars cost money and taxes are needed to run the federal, state and local government effectively.

 

[LA RAM FAN]

your right about how what Bush did in offcie will affect us for decades to come and thats because both parties are corrupt.Its a one party system designed to look like two parties so the american sheople think they have a choice in who gets elected.

Until the american sheople wake the hell up and stop ignoring reality,we will remain this police state that we are and continue losing more and more of our freedoms decade after decade unless we can get a third party president in office sometime who will serve the PEOPLE instead of wall street and the establishment.That im afraid is not going to happen anytime soon.we need a revolution and the american sheople dont seem to care.