Source of Iraq WMD intelligence tells his story

[Gunny]

What part of "noted drunk and liar" did you miss? This is a very old story and well documented. This was all hearsay and delivered third party. That is the point!!! And exactly why are you having a problem with this? There have been Congressional hearing over this; Tenet has written about it in his book; Bush has admitted they failed to vet the stories; Powell has admitted he failed to vet "aluminum tubes" and "mobile labs"; Frontline, which did the initial story on Salman Pak, has retracted and did a follow up on Curveball and well as an excellent piece on how the media, including themselves, failed in the lead up to the Iraq war. Do you live in a cave? The case for war in Iraq was built completely around fallacies. The real question begged is just how in the hell do you win a fallacy!

So is the fact that we provided Saddam with most of his chemical weapons technology. You know ... the ones he didn't have that the CIA taught his chemists to refine?

But you just keep on believing what you want because your politics are FAR more important than the truth.

 

[rayboyusmc]

So did Sadman have any WMDs of significance when we invaded?

 

[PeterS]

So is the fact that we provided Saddam with most of his chemical weapons technology. You know ... the ones he didn't have that the CIA taught his chemists to refine?

But you just keep on believing what you want because your politics are FAR more important than the truth.

I assume you are talking to yourself. Tenet acknowledged that German Intel was the source for his briefing of Bush. German Intel acknowledged that they warned Tenet that Curveball was a dubious source. Curveball and the INC acknowledged that they lied. None of curveballs stories were verified by the administration even though UN inspectors were in place. What in this is about politics?

 

[Truthmatters]

This is the whole reason this admin has stood by torture. It gave them the ability to get the "intell" they wanted.

You can justify anything if you can get people to say whatever you want them to say.

It has been long held that torture gives you unreliable intell because people will say ANYTHING to make it stop.