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Originally Posted by JustPlaneCrazy
No, it's been gone over many, many times in past threads, do a search....
Let's see, harboring terrorists, funding terror world wide, brutally killing thousands of his own people....just to name a few.....
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Well let's rehash it once again. Let's see what Gregory Thielmann, who served as a director in the state department's bureau of intelligence has to say about it:
Mr Thielmannn said yesterday: "I believe the Bush administration did not provide an accurate picture to the American people of the military threat posed by Iraq."
He conceded that part of the problem lay with US intelligence, but added: "Most of it lies with the way senior officials misused the information they were provided."
As Democrats demanded a congressional enquiry, the administration sharply changed tack. The defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, told the Senate the US had not gone to war against Iraq because of fresh evidence of weapons of mass destruction but because Washington saw what evidence there was prior to 2001 "in a dramatic new light" after September 11.
At a press conference yesterday, Mr Thielmann said that, as of March 2003, when the US began military operations, "Iraq posed no imminent threat to either its neighbours or to the United States".
Once again they use the 9/11 brush to gloss over any problems that come up.