this is news?

(you're not here but i am saying that with one of those funny accents so you'd laugh. why? cause it's funny 4,092 of our men and women have been murdered. yes, murdered. no, not killed by iraqis. sent to their certain deaths by king george and his court. and we let them (king george and his court) not only get away with it, BUT CONTINUE TO GET AWAY WITH IT.)

Bush Inflated Threat From Iraq's Banned Weapons, Report Says


By Joby Warrick and Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writers
President Bush and top administration officials repeatedly exaggerated what they knew about Iraq's weapons and its ties to terrorist groups as the White House pressed its case for war against Iraq, the Senate intelligence committee said yesterday in a long-awaited report.
While most of the administration's prewar claims about Iraq reflected now-discredited U.S. intelligence reports, the White House crossed a line by conveying certainty about the threat that Saddam Hussein posed to the United States, according to the report, approved over the objections of most of the committee's Republican members.
"In making the case for war, the administration repeatedly presented intelligence as fact when it was unsubstantiated, contradicted or even nonexistent," Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), the committee chairman, said at a news conference. "As a result, the American people were led to believe that the threat from Iraq was much greater than actually existed." ...........

blood boiling

hackles up. we have many enemies. (qaddafi springs to mind as does some of the 'leaders' in saudi arabia as does china as does many other places). yet we MUST attack iraq because they posed an imminent threat? who the f**k do they think is STILL buying this - cause they're still saying it?

Key architect of Iraq war defends case for US-led invasion
An influential architect of the war in Iraq defended the case for US military action on Monday, saying the failure to find weapons of mass destruction did not mean the decision to invade was a mistake.
Douglas Feith, former undersecretary of defense for policy from 2001 to 2005, said Saddam Hussein posed a serious threat to the United States due to his links to terrorist groups and his regime's potential to produce biological and chemical weapons.
"And even based on what we have learned since, even though we didn't find the WMD stockpiles that the CIA had said we would find in Iraq, what we did find ... was a serious WMD threat in Iraq because Saddam had maintained programs for biological and chemical weapons," Feith said at a news conference promoting his new memoir, "War and Decision."
Feith said government documents show the Iraqi dictator had experts and resources in place so that his regime could manufacture chemical and biological weapons within three to five weeks..........