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...Erroneous Information Re "So Much for the WMD" [Feb. 9], your report on how the CIA misjudged Iraq's ability to produce weapons of mass destruction: there are two distinct issues?how the CIA gathered intelligence, and how President Bush acted on it. Neither the CIA nor Bush can be squarely blamed for the intelligence failure. It was probably the result of a communication problem. The CIA views the world in shades of gray, but the President sees things as black or white. Jo?l Tendon Cortaillod, Switzerland...
...doubt the word of America.” It sounds like the punch line of a macabre joke after the WMD-related developments of the last few weeks, but Bush made this triumphal assertion in his State of the Union address a month ago. Five days after the speech, David Kay concluded that the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) Bush appointed him to find apparently did not exist. Twelve days after that, in a speech at Georgetown, CIA chief George Tenet averred that his agency had never told the president that Hussein posed an “imminent threat?...
...between reality and his prewar claims as a failure of the intelligence community. (The commission he recently appointed has been charged to investigate this so-called intelligence failure.) In doing so, he has deflected attention from the real question: Why did his administration continue to claim that Saddam possessed WMD after inspectors on the ground came up empty-handed...
...certain: when the president decided to invade Iraq in March, declaring, “the Iraqi regime will be disarmed by force” because it had “not disarmed itself,” intensive inspections had yielded no evidence that the regime actually had any WMD of which to disarm itself. Nor were the Iraqis resisting the inspectors: on March 8, two weeks before the war began, Blix reported to the Security Council that the Iraqi regime had “started the process of destruction,” of its conventional Al Samoud missiles. Blix also...
...Krauthammer to write that America's traditional allies have not "lifted a finger" to help in postwar reconstruction in Iraq is simply wrong. We are allies of the U.S. in fighting terrorism. But alliances are about partnership. And the partnership was violated when the U.S. lied about Iraq's WMD and its nonexistent connections to al-Qaeda in order to get hold of the country's oil reserves. Raimund Wildner Fuerth, Germany...