CIA Warned Bush of No Weapons in Iraq
Bush and Cheney were both informed by the CIA six months before the invasion of Iraq that the country had no WMD.
They decided to invade anyway ruling that WMD were not the reason they wanted to invade, but their objective was now regime change.
This is the final proof that Bush and Cheney knew they were lying when they made their various statements about Saddam's WMD capabilities leading up to that war.
Drumheller, who headed CIA covert operations in Europe during the run-up to the Iraq war, said intelligence opposing administration claims of a WMD threat came from a top Iraqi official who provided the US spy agency with other credible information.Since the invasion failed to reveal any WMD, the Bush regime have sought to portray this as an intelligence failure. Drumheller contends that this is nonsense, saying that this was policy failure rather than a failure of intelligence.
The source "told us that there were no active weapons of mass destruction programs," Drumheller said in a CBS interview to be aired on Sunday on the network's news magazine, "60 Minutes."
"The (White House) group that was dealing with preparation for the Iraq war came back and said they were no longer interested," he was quoted as saying in interview excerpts released by CBS on Friday. "We said: 'Well, what about the intel?' And they said: 'Well, this isn't about intel anymore. This is about regime change'," added Drumheller, whose CIA operation was assigned the task of debriefing the Iraqi official.
Bush looked the US in eye and lied as he sent other people's children to fight his war. I've said it too often, but please, will someone just impeach this man?
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Nice post, I just blogged about this too after I watched 60 Minutes. The Niger story is absolutely ridiculous. I seriously don't see how much more evidence the American people want before we can impeach this sorry excuse for a president.
How funny you should post a comment. I was reading your blog over the weekend. You do great work over there!
And as for the story, we now have it beyond a shadow of a doubt that Bush and Co. knew that there was very little chance that there were WMD in Iraq, but that they had settled on a policy of regime change. Had they told that to the American people I doubt there would have been any enthusiasm for the war.
They lied. And people died. My greatest hope is the Dems take the House in November and start impeachment proceedings.
It's LONG overdue.
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