A top member of Al Qaeda in American custody was identified as a likely fabricator months before the Bush administration began to use his statements as the foundation for its claims that Iraq trained Al Qaeda members to use biological and chemical weapons, according to newly declassified portions of a Defense Intelligence Agency document.
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Today, watching the morning talk shows, I am stuck by the adherence of Senator Allen the talking point, “yeah we got it wrong, but so did everyone else”.
Isn’t this the type of excuses and equivocating that we tell our elementary children are wrong? You know, “if Johnny jumped up a cliff would jump after him?”
Also, the claim that everyone agreed that Iraq possessed WMD is just demonstrably false; for instance, go take a look at what Colin Powel was saying about Iraq’s WMD capabilities back in 2001.
If everyone was in complete agreement as to what the severity of the threat was, why on earth was the inspection regime in place in the first place?
If the international community all agreed and believed that threat was as grave as the Bush Administration claimed, why where they not on board for the invasion? There must have been some doubts (that turned out to be correct), right?
More to the point, the international consensus was that Iraq at one point possessed WMD, and 20 years ago was using poison gas against Iran and internal political opponents (with a wink and nod, and maybe some satellite photos from the US). Based on this and their behavior towards the weapons inspectors there was interpolation that he might still posses WMD. So, “everyone”, agreed that Iraq was some kind of threat, but all threats are not equal! And as we can now so vividly tell, 2,000 deaths, 10,000 wounded, and hundreds of billions in debt latter, attacking and occupying a country should be the absolute option of last resort.
I like to say just because you’ve got snakes in the basement doesn’t mean you’ve got to burn down the house to kill them.
Plus, this is not even considering that the Bush Administration and only the Bush Administration where pushing the mushroom cloud and Al’Quad, link.
Oh well.
talking points