Was fired for incompetennce. Why am I supposed to believe a fired employee with an axe to grind? ANd how does that prove that Bush lied?You didnt bother to read the article.TRANSLATION: I can't refute anything the OP said. So I'll curse and swear, bluster and scream, and try to keep you from examining the truth instead.Jesus fucking Christ, you're still trying to sell this "bad intelligence" bullshit? Move the fuck on with life already!
There is nothing to refute in the OP. That the Bush administration's claims about Iraq were "exaggerated" at best is already well established. Iraq did not have WMD. They had no nuclear program. They were not making biological or chemical weapons. It wasn't so, and that fact is not in dispute by anyone other than blathering partisan idiots.
Also not in dispute is the fact that the Bush administration intentionally made a case that did not represent the facts. Reports to Congress were doctored to make hypothetical possibilities look like certain eventualities. Intelligence that was known to be unverified was put into State of the Union addresses. There was, without a doubt, dishonesty involved.
But you know what? It's in the past, isn't it? It's done, it's over. People who want to suck on Bush's dick because they hate Obama are no better than liberals who suck Obama's dick because they hate Bushmuahaha
. Either way, you're still just being a cock-sucking faggot.
Bush went according to the intelligence info he had at the time. Every president does just that. That the intelligence was wrong did not make him a liar.
Your claims about Bush exaggerating etc are simply made up.
Richard Clarke came out early and hard about Bush's wanting and looking for a reason to invade Iraq, because "...he [Saddam] tried to kill my dad".
Clarke's bio: In 1992, President George H.W. Bush appointed him to chair theCounter-terrorism Security Group and to a seat on the United States National Security Council. President Bill Clinton retained Clarke and in 1998 promoted him to be the National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism, the chief counter-terrorism adviser on theNational Security Council. Under President George W. Bush, Clarke initially continued in the same position, but the position was no longer given cabinet-level access. He later became the Special Advisor to the President on cybersecurity. Clarke left the Bush administration in 2003.