My view isn't about bias at all. It's not about defending Bush. I'm using my own common sense. And my common sense tells me this is as ridiculous as trying to impeach and remove Clinton from office.
Ridiculous that it will never happen or ridiculous that it's not even close to true?
For the most part, we were on the outside looking in. There were UN inspectors on the ground, periodically, but they did not have unfettered access to the entire country for years. We didn’t know what they had. But we did have people around the world, including most of Congress, believing the guy was a threat and needed to be removed.
You point seems to be that a congressmen's intelligence assessment is on the same level as the intelligence agency.
That could be why the WMD wrongful accusation was one of the biggest mistakes in intelligence history.
And you are OK with this, as it doesn't warrant further investigation?
The whole thing is absurd. Most of Congress, the UN, and more than 20 countries believed Saddam was a threat. To say that Bush manipulated intelligence that was consistent before and after he took office and then tricked all of those members of Congress, the UN, and the nearly 30 countries who participated in the war is beyond absurd.
Not if there is evidence to the contrary. And again, what everyone else believed, based on political statements mean little. It's we did know, and did we make that much of monumental blunder? Again, are we that inept? Is intelligence THAT faulty? So faulty that it would lead to the loss of so many lives and money?
If that's the case, we have the worse intelligence in the history of mankind.
And further more, we if we didn't have the capability to know the truth about their WMD's as you suggest, What did we then base this all on......suspicion? that's what's absurd here. not the idea that BUSH or someone, knew there was contradicting intel and chose not to reveal, or use it.
What I've heard is McClellan make a broad brush allegation. Nothing specific. Ari said the guy wasn't even involved in meetings leading up to the war.
If Ari says he was involved, then Ari is accountable to Scott conclusions also.
On the fact that wasn't WMD alone, negates the need for Vincent or Scott's books to warrant a closer look and ask serious questions as to why BUSH sold the idea to the American public based on faulty intel that we needed to start a war.