Did Bush torture people to come up with a reason to invade Iraq?

[hedgehog]

It's starting to look that way. How much of the "intelligence" used to justify the invasion came out of the CIA's secret prisons?

[Jack Rabbit]

1. How much of it? None.

PNAC was pressing President Clinton to invade Iraq in 1997. They didn't give two bits about the reasons.

The intelligence on Iraq was ambiguous. There were some document that said "maybe" they had so much weapons-grade chemicals and biological agents; and then there were other documents that said they had been ordered destroyed, but none verifying that they actually had been destroyed. This existed before Bush seized power.

It was Doug Faith's job in the Pentagon to edit the ambiguity out of reports and cherry pick intelligence. The "maybes" were dropped out of the reports and became certainties.

Torture was entirely irrelevant to the lies told prior to the invasion. The lies were so much that they stated that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when she did not; the lies were that they "knew" Iraq had them when they knew nothing for certain.

[Demeter]

2. Gods Knows, He Tortured Me!

Can't look at a picture nor listen to a word in his dulcet tones without screaming in pain....