The wrong target: the newly created intelligence commission is supposed to find out how we blew it so badly on Iraq. It wants to focus on the spooks, but the real culprits here are the pols.
American Prospect, The, April, 2004 by Vest, Jason
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> ON FEBRUARY 5, 2003, AS U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE COLIN Powell tried to convince the United Nations Security Council of the need for war against Iraq, in a quiet Baghdad neighborhood half a world away, Mahdi Obeidi watched Al-Jazeera intently as Powell's presentation unfolded. Once tasked with designing and building a centrifuge to enrich uranium for use in Iraq's nuclear-weapons program, Obeidi bad spent most of the past decade tracking budget numbers as the state Military Industrial Commission's director of projects--a position that put the scientist in the unique position of ...
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