Making A Carving Bench

The U.S. retreat and apologize?

by repubblica.it
Washington, March 31, 2005 21:21
USA: REPORT ON IRAQ WEAPONS, INTELLIGENCE TOTALLY IN ERROR (2)
However, the Board argues that "after a very thorough analysis, the Commission found no indication that the intelligence system has distorted the evidence regarding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. They simply wrong. "Again." The briefings provided daily (President Bush) before the war in Iraq were wrong . Through securities made to attract the attention and repetition of questionable data, these information swelled the argument that Iraq was rebuilding its arsenal of WMD "[ndw: Weapons of Mass Destruction]." Although even the intelligence services of many other countries believed that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, were ultimately the United States to stake their credibility ', making this a story of failures more 'known - and damaging - intelligence in American history. "" The damage done to the credibility' of America by far too publicized defaillance of our intelligence in Iraq will 'take years to be repaired " . The bi-partisan committee of 10 members, chaired by former federal judge Laurence Silberman and former senator Charles Robb, says nothing but 'on any "exaggeration" of intelligence data on Iraq by the Bush administration to support his choice of war: "We were not allowed to investigate how policymakers used the intelligence assessments received by the agencies." CIA Director Porter Gropss and Secretary Defense Donald Rumsfeld welcomed the report, saying he agreed on the necessity 'of profound transformation. ()