http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-cia-has-just-now-declassified.html
Courtesy of Vice:
For the first time, the public can now read the hastily drafted CIA
document that led Congress to pass a joint resolution authorizing the
use of military force in Iraq, a costly war launched March 20, 2003 that
was predicated on "disarming" Iraq of its (non-existent) WMD,
overthrowing Saddam Hussein, and "freeing" the Iraqi people.
A report issued by the government funded think-tank RAND Corporation
last December titled "Blinders, Blunders and Wars" said the NIE
"contained several qualifiers that were dropped…. As the draft NIE went
up the intelligence chain of command, the conclusions were treated
increasingly definitively."
An example of that: According to the newly declassified NIE, the
intelligence community concluded that Iraq "probably has renovated a
[vaccine] production plant" to manufacture biological weapons "but we
are unable to determine whether [biological weapons] agent research has
resumed." The NIE also said Hussein did not have "sufficient material"
to manufacture any nuclear weapons. But in an October 7, 2002 speech in
Cincinnati, Ohio, then-President George W. Bush simply said Iraq,
"possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons" and "the
evidence indicates that Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear weapons
program."
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