Reply #7: Actually, even British intelligence did NOT reach the same conclusions. [View All]

[Brotherjohn]

That's why Sir Richard Dearlove, the head of MI6 (the British CIA), said the following:

"Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."

"The case was thin. Saddam was not threatening his neighbours and his WMD capability was less than that of Libya, North Korea or Iran."

To my knowledge, this document's authenticity has been validated (even implicitly by Tony Blair himself) and Dearlove has not contradicted this statement attributed to him.