BUSH KNEW BEFORE THE WAR THAT SADDAM HAD NO WMD!!!

(My personal commentary is in blue type.)

"the information that might have stopped the invasion of Iraq was twisted in order to justify it."

"The intelligence" wasn't bad. But Bush's selective version of it was really just a big fat lie, not just another stupid mistake!!!

THIS IS UNQUESTIONABLY IMPEACHABLE, FOLKS, NO IFS ANDS OR BUTS! ARGUE ALL YOU WANT, YOU CAN'T CHANGE REALITY, BUSH LIED TO ALL OF US IN HIS STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS ABOUT MUSHROOM CLOUDS, HE DIDN'T JUST "GET IT WRONG" BECAUSE OF BAD INTELLIGENCE! THAT WAS THEIR DESIGNATED RUSE FROM DAY ONE, TO CLAIM THE CIA "GOT IT WRONG", WHEN THEY ACTUALLY GOT IT RIGHT, BUT THEIR PROOF WAS IGNORED TO FIT THE PLAN!!!!

BUSH LIED!

...ABOUT SADDAM HUSSEIN'S WMD!

He didn't just "get it wrong!"

And if you read between the lines, (follow the trail of smoking guns that suggests quite graphically that there was a concerted effort to manage the information, not study it) you can see that Bush joined others in a Cheney-driven conspiracy to hide this information from our own active intelligence agents and even from Collin Powell and Congress, and from the public in general, all for one reason alone: To get the unprecedented executive power to start an undeclared "war" on Saddam Hussein, while the memory of 9-11 was still a fresh wound in the American psyche.

How many have died because of it!?!

EXCLUSIVE FROM SIDNEY BLUMENTHAL AT SALON
"On Sept. 18, 2002, CIA director George Tenet briefed President Bush in the Oval Office on top-secret intelligence that Saddam Hussein did not have weapons of mass destruction, according to two former senior CIA officers. Bush (guided by Cheney)dismissed as worthless this information from the Iraqi foreign minister, a member of Saddam's inner circle, although it turned out to be accurate in every detail.
Tenet never brought it up again. (There's "conspiracy theory" smoking gun #1)
Nor was the intelligence included in the National Intelligence Estimate of October 2002, which stated categorically that Iraq possessed WMD. (There's "conspiracy theory" smoking gun #2)
No one in Congress was aware of the secret intelligence that Saddam had no WMD as the House of Representatives and the Senate voted, (There's "conspiracy theory" smoking gun #3) This is an absolutely crucial factor leading up to the "war", Cheney was in full-spin mode to accomplish this "hide the truth" feat!) a week after the submission of the NIE, on the Authorization for Use of Military Force in Iraq. The information, moreover, was not circulated within the CIA among those agents involved in operations to prove whether Saddam had WMD. (This is "conspiracy theory" smoking gun #4, when intelligence agencies are deliberately denied access to the whole picture, it certainly constitutes a conspiracy within the administration to deceive the public)
On April 23, 2006, CBS's "60 Minutes" interviewed Tyler Drumheller, the former CIA chief of clandestine operations for Europe, who disclosed that the agency had received documentary intelligence from Naji Sabri, Saddam's foreign minister, that Saddam did not have WMD. "We continued to validate him the whole way through," said Drumheller. "The policy was set. (By Cheney) The war in Iraq was coming, and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy, to justify the policy." (Downing Street memo?)
Now two former senior CIA officers have confirmed Drumheller's account to me and provided the background to the story of how
the information that might have stopped the invasion of Iraq was twisted (by Cheney) in order to justify it.
They described what Tenet said to Bush about the lack of WMD, and how Bush responded, and noted that
Tenet never shared Sabri's intelligence with then Secretary of State Colin Powell. ("conspiracy theory" smoking gun #5)
According to the former officers, the intelligence was also never shared with the senior military planning the invasion, which required U.S. soldiers to receive medical shots against the ill effects of WMD and to wear protective uniforms in the desert.
Instead, said the former officials, the information was distorted in a report written to fit the preconception that Saddam did have WMD programs. That false and restructured (by Cheney, and this is "conspiracy theory" smoking gun #6) report was passed to Richard Dearlove, chief of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), who briefed Prime Minister Tony Blair on it as validation of the cause for war. (Downing Street memo!) And behind the scenes throughout this story, is the sub-plot of Cheney racing back and forth to the CIA HQ, sticking his manipulative fingers into the intelligence pie, and outing Valerie Plame, all to get his no-bid, book-cooker's war for profit underway, consequences be damned! This was a conspiracy at the highest levels to deceive the public and the Democrats, it was a desperate and profanely successful leap into an era of "War at all Cost!" LITERALLY!!!
http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/09/06/bush_wmd/