This is the cause of the current war in Iraq

I did not monday morning quarterback anything. I heard and believed predictions about what would happen if we invaded, and it all has come true.

If you don’t understand how the intelligence community works, I suggest you go and find out. The info was cherry picked. Just explain to me how you can say it wasn’t given what was said in the downing street memos. It is the most glaring example. And why did Bush include the 16 words in hid SOTU address, when they new the nigier/yellowcake claim was false?

Just deal with those 2 issues. And be specific. Have you ever actually read the downing street memo? Or have you ever actual looked at the sequence of events surrounding Niger/yellowcake issue?

Wow, I go through some of the old posting just to see if the poster says our offerings help.

again, Wow Jamhal, I’ve seen you praise Powell. He by the way was Secretary of State at the time. CIA - State, Colin Powell.

Jimahl, it came down to the same information that everyone in Washington had at the same time. Powell would have seen the “evidence” prior to saying that. Go lynch the CIA. You note how there have been no joint committees to investigate the “lies”. Would the liberals and other Dems have stood for the “lies” without trying to oust Bush. It was cured when the Clinton apponted Director “resigned”.

No instead they instituted the “Bush lied, people died” campaign. Hope you have this “notify me for new advice” punched.

God I wish I could Monday Morning every decision in the world.

You want quotes from only president Bush? How about congress who had the same information that he had who also voted in favor of the war? Or the UN who gave him the information? Or do you want propaganda that you believe that the president some how has the ability to go to war against the approval of congress?

In my essay I am specifically targeting Bush, but actually any of those would work.

If you think Bush didn’t use propaganda, than you are a Bush fanatic. The evidence in clear.

Some bush lies:

“Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof — the smoking gun — that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.”

“The danger is clear: using chemical, biological or, one day, nuclear weapons, obtained with the help of Iraq, the terrorists could fulfill their stated ambitions and kill thousands or hundreds of thousands of innocent people in our country, or any other.”

“Satellite photographs reveal that Iraq is rebuilding facilities at sites that have been part of its nuclear program in the past. Iraq has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes and other equipment needed for gas centrifuges, which are used to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons.”

“We’ve also discovered through intelligence that Iraq has a growing fleet of manned and unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to disperse chemical or biological weapons across broad areas. We’re concerned that Iraq is exploring ways of using these UAVS for missions targeting the United States.”

“We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories. You remember when Colin Powell stood up in front of the world, and he said, Iraq has got laboratories, mobile labs to build biological weapons. They’re illegal. They’re against the United Nations resolutions, and we’ve so far discovered two. And we’ll find more weapons as time goes on. But for those who say we haven’t found the banned manufacturing devices or banned weapons, they’re wrong, we found them.”

“Right now, Iraq is expanding and improving facilities that were used for the production of biological weapons.”

“Our intelligence officials estimate that Saddam Hussein had the materials to produce as much as 500 tons of sarin, mustard and VX nerve agent.”

“The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.”

“We have sources that tell us that Saddam Hussein recently authorized Iraqi field commanders to use chemical weapons — the very weapons the dictator tells us he does not have.”

“Intelligence gathered by this and other governments leaves no doubt that the Iraq regime continues to possess and conceal some of the most lethal weapons ever devised.”

These quotes do no reflect someone who was just wrong. These were lies. They knew there was no proof of a nuclear program. They knew there was no evidence of cheimcal and biological weapons. They LIED!

Just reading the downing street memo alone proves it.