Conservatives Discuss Impeaching Bush & Cheney
July 14, 2007
Remember, an invertebrate Congress…
What I Knew Before the Iraq Invasion….
May 1, 2007
…and apparently what Senators like Bob Graham on the Intelligence Committe knew:
What I Knew Before the Invasion
“In February 2002, after a briefing on the status of the war in Afghanistan, the commanding officer, Gen. Tommy Franks, told me the war was being compromised as specialized personnel and equipment were being shifted from Afghanistan to prepare for the war in Iraq — a war more than a year away”
“At a meeting of the Senate intelligence committee on Sept. 5, 2002, CIA Director George Tenet was asked what the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) provided as the rationale for a preemptive war in Iraq…. Tenet said that no NIE had been requested.”
“I directed the completion of an NIE…. three weeks later the community produced a classified NIE.”
“There were troubling aspects to this 90-page document…. it contained vigorous dissents on key parts of the information, especially by the departments of State and Energy. Particular skepticism was raised about aluminum tubes that were offered as evidence Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear program. As to Hussein’s will to use whatever weapons he might have, the estimate indicated he would not do so unless he was first attacked.”
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