BlindBoo
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BullshitAdd to that Congress did not vote to invade Iraq, they gave that power and decision to Bush, as he (Bush) thought necessary. Secondly the Congress and the President did not have the same information on Iraq.
Congres knew they were authorizing war. that was the whole debate.
Some members of Congress had exactly the same info.The Congress dumped the decision onto Bush. If Bush had decided not to invade Iraq we would not have invaded, if Bush did decide to invade we would invade. It was Bush's decision, and Congress let Bush decide, it was Bush's baby. Why did only some members of Congress have the same information as the president, did that mean the Congress and the president did not have the same information on Iraq? So, Congress passed a war resolution and some did not have all the information.BullshitAdd to that Congress did not vote to invade Iraq, they gave that power and decision to Bush, as he (Bush) thought necessary. Secondly the Congress and the President did not have the same information on Iraq.
Congres knew they were authorizing war. that was the whole debate.
Some members of Congress had exactly the same info.
the leadership in the House and Senate....the heads of the relevant committees.....all had the same info.........
On Sept. 18, 2002, CIA director George Tenet briefed President Bush in the Oval Office on top-secret intelligence that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction, according to two former senior CIA officers. Bush dismissed as worthless this information from the Iraqi foreign minister, a member of Saddam’s inner circle, although it turned out to be accurate in every detail. Tenet never brought it up again.
Nor was the intelligence included in the National Intelligence Estimate of October 2002, which stated categorically that Iraq possessed WMD. No one in Congress was aware of the secret intelligence that Saddam had no WMD as the House of Representatives and the Senate voted, a week after the submission of the NIE, on the Authorization for Use of Military Force in Iraq. The information, moreover, was not circulated within the CIAamong those agents involved in operations to prove whether Saddam had WMD.
Bush knew Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction - Salon.com
Seems if this were true, you'd be able to cite it from an objective source like WSJ. Salon? I'm beginning to think this is like Searchlight claiming that somebody told him that Mitt Romney didn't pay his taxes.
The source for the claim is Tyler Drumheller. Did you say WSJ?
Iraq has been an endless abuse of the CIA. CIA operative Tyler Drumheller said top White House officials simply brushed off the warning that "reliable intelligence" suggested Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, saying they were "no longer interested" in intelligence. Former CIA operative Paul Pillar wrote that "intelligence was misused publicly to justify decisions already made."
Insure CIA Agents Against A Reckless Administration - WSJ