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**9mm_fan** · 09-28-2009, 09:27 PM

No, the Democrats (and the Republicans) in Congress didn't see the same intelligence as the White House.

They saw the intelligence which the White House had prepared for them, which included many distortions and absurd suppositions. VP D!ck Cheney (stupid filter) spent a month at CIA headquarters looking over the analysts shoulders as they rewrote the intel book on Iraq to his specifications.

Give people bad, misleading, or intentionally biased intel and they make bad decisions.

So how do you explain the comments going all the way back to 1998 from people like John Kerry?

Regardless, changing course after you commit to something that serious is shocking. Trying not to rehash those arguments because we don't have access to the intelligence ourselves.

09-28-2009, 09:27 PM	#4
9mm_fan Join Date May 2007 Age 53 Posts 5,191 Senior Member	No, the Democrats (and the Republicans) in Congress didn't see the same intelligence as the White House. They saw the intelligence which the White House had prepared for them, which included many distortions and absurd suppositions. VP D!ck Cheney (stupid filter) spent a month at CIA headquarters looking over the analysts shoulders as they rewrote the intel book on Iraq to his specifications. Give people bad, misleading, or intentionally biased intel and they make bad decisions. So how do you explain the comments going all the way back to 1998 from people like John Kerry? Regardless, changing course after you commit to something that serious is shocking. Trying not to rehash those arguments because we don't have access to the intelligence ourselves.
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