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In reply to the discussion: In a rare rebuttal, CIA is pushing back [View all]OldRedneck
(1,397 posts)The US intell community told the Bush junta there were no WMD. However, senior members of the Bush crowd believed otherwise -- Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz and Cheney. They were seduced by Ahmed Chalabi, an Iraqi ex-patriate living in luxury on the Riveria and feeding lies and bullshit to Cheney. DIA and CIA both told the White House to drop Chalabi like a bad habit. However, policy people (Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, Cheney) love "defectors" and ex-pats. The intell people don't trust them.
Cheney cherry-picked information from the CIA. Colin Powell was forced to make his bullshit presentation before the UN. Later, Powell would describe that presentation as the low point in his career.
The intell people were right. The policy shitheads had made up their minds and did not want to be confused with facts.
History repeats itself.