Liability
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Do you think the intelligence they got was sound?
Not all of it, obviously. The problem is often a matter of interpretation. And how badly some intel got interpreted is a function of how screwed up our State Department had gotten and how ill-equipped (Human Intelligence) our CIA was.
what about Cheney putting pressure on the CIA? or the fact that Bush's cabinet was comprised of individuals who had wanted to attack Iraq for 10 years?
If Vice President Cheney believed that Saddam's Iraq had WMDs, then any "pressure" he put on the CIA was motivated by that belief -- and the possible consequences of such a state of affairs.
And if it so happens that the desire of some advisers to "attack" Iraq coincided with a reason (after 9/11/2001 and in light of the lessons we were drawing about the state of the world because of 9/11) to go after Saddam's regime, that still doesn't mean that the President got manipulated or lied to.