WMD fiasco was no one's fault?

0 Comments | Deseret News (Salt Lake City), Apr 14, 2005

A presidential commission declared the U.S. intelligence community to be "dead wrong" in its assessment of WMDs in Iraq. What didn't make the headlines was the criticism in the report that briefings for the president were "disastrously one-sided" and "more alarmist and less nuanced" than longer studies.

Additionally, an ombudsman for the CIA told the Senate that Vice President Cheney had made several trips to CIA headquarters prior to the Iraq invasion and was "hammering" intelligence analysts to come up with a connection between al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein. The Bush administration wants us to believe that the WMD fiasco was no one's fault -- it just happened. Is anyone besides me outraged by all of this?

Wendy Lee

Salt Lake City

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