Terry_Herrington
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Daisy said:...but they do show that the WH decides the action first and seeks justification second.
I believe this is the core problem with the Bush Administration.
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Daisy said:...but they do show that the WH decides the action first and seeks justification second.
Daisy said:It seems it was not a mistake - the evidence for the "alternate" report was altered to fit the forgone conclusion, judging by this Inspector General's report and the Downing Street memos (thanks, Poncho, for those links).
Daisy said:Read the Downing Street Memos - they are no laughing matter.
It's not a falsehood - read the report.carpro said:Purely your opinion. There is no evidence that any intelligence was "altered" or "doctored". Why do you insist on speading this falsehood?
carpro said:Oh yes they are.:laugh:
A real barrel of monkeys.Downing Street Memo exerpt said:HAS CONTAINMENT WORKED?
3 Since 1991, the policy of containment has been partially successful;
- Sanctions have effectively frozen Iraq’s nuclear programme;
- Iraq has been prevented from rebuilding its conventional arsenal to pre-Gulf War levels;
- ballistic missile programmes have been severely restricted; Biological weapons (BW) and Chemical Weapons (CW) programmes have been hindered;
- No Fly Zones established over northern and southern Iraq have given some protection to the Kurds and the Shia. Although subject to continuing political pressure, the Kurds remain autonomous; and
- Saddam has not succeeded in seriously threatening his neighbours.
Daisy said:It's not a falsehood - read the report.
Nuh-uh!carpro said:I read the report. You're spinning it.
Daisy said:Nuh-uh!
Seriously, details with references.
Feith morphed Tenet's "our understanding of the relationship between Iraq and al-Qaida is evolving and is based on sources of varying reliability" into a "mature symbiotic relationship".carpro said:So point out to me in the article where you believe it says that intelligence was "altered" . Looks to me like you're making it out to be something it's not.
Summary Report:
Results. The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy developed, produced, and then disseminated alternative intelligence assessments on the Iraq and al-Qaida relationship, which included some conclusions that were inconsistent with the consensus of the Intelligence Community, to senior decion-makers....[T]he intelligence assessments were intelligence products...As a result, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy did not provide "the most accurate analysis of intelligence" to senior decision-makers.
Daisy said:Feith morphed Tenet's "our understanding of the relationship between Iraq and al-Qaida is evolving and is based on sources of varying reliability" into a "mature symbiotic relationship".
Under the guise of analysis, he created an intelligence product - based on what? Feith was supposed to analyse the intelligence, not make up intelligence of his own:
Feith did not provide the most accurate analysis - that's his job, to provide analysis. Inaccurate and inconsistent with what the real intelligence reports concluded.
Daisy said:What exact conclusion did the above come to and how do you know?
Dragoon68 said:Wouldn't it be great if we, as mere humans, had the power to gather all the facts we desired on a given subject, sort out the significant from the meaningless, always deduce the full capabilities and true intentions of others, and accurately predict the future?
Wouldn't it be great if we, given the former and also as mere humans, could then know exactly what course of action should be taken to alter the course of that future to meet our needs without any errors, mistakes, loss of life or limb, or even the slightest inconvenience?
The Galatian said:Too bad he didn't tell the whole truth about it. As his own pentagon inspector general reports on the manipulation of intelligence by former Bush undersecretary Douglas Feith:
"The actions, in our opinion, were inappropriate, given that all the products did not clearly show the variance with the consensus of the intel community, and in some cases were shown as intel products," he said.
Gimble also said that Feith made "adjustments" in his findings, depending on the audience.
http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read/62771
The truth is that for every report there is some dissent.
Problem was, he went with the dissent which had little basis instead of with the concensus of his own top intelligence agency. Why?2 Timothy2:1-4 said:The truth is that for every report there is some dissent. Wading through all of that is daunting I'm sure. There is nothing substantial or even impressive about dissent that was not considered. Chances are there were reports from different agencies that went the other way that were not mentioned or considered. When you get input from many sources this is what happens. But it sure gives fodder for the left and the news agencies. But that was redundant.
The Galatian said:Systematically suppressing any intelligence that doesn't agree with what the president wants, is not "dissent."
You can't substantiate that statement.
It's just more innuendo.