WASHINGTON - As President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld defended their invasion of Iraq (news - web sites), a group of arms control experts accused the administration of misrepresenting intelligence information to justify the war.
When the war began in March, Iraq posed no threat to the United States or to its neighbors, a former senior State Department intelligence official said Wednesday.
Its missiles could not reach Israel, Saudi Arabia or Iran, said Greg Thielmann, who held a high post in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research.
But Thielmann, one of four critics at a session held by the private Arms Control Association, said the Bush administration had formed a "faith-based" policy on Iraq and took the approach that "we know the answers; give us the intelligence to support those answers."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030710/ap_on_re_mi_ea/us_iraq&cid=540&ncid=716