Point; Third paragragh down in the article.

McCain, ” because I believed Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction as did every intelligence agency in the world and every assessment.”

—I BELIEVE—-!

Then 2nd paragragh,

“every intelligence agency in the world” thought Hussein had WMD. ”

—Thought—!

These are strong powerful determined words even for a man asking to be President.

What about France? Russia? Turkey? Israel?

Oh, I’m sure there are a few more. Notice I used the word “sure”.

So McCain and the republicans excuse to not being held accountable for failing ? ” Everyone else thought “.

Thats right, there were others that were fed intel from the White House. Remember, the U.N. didn’t buy into Bush’s claims.

So what of those Gov Palin responsibilities? The ones that come with responsibilities?

If Gov Palin was asked about the intell of WMD. Would she now repeat the republican standard that the others were wrong too? That because they were wrong it is without accountability republicans were wrong ? Really…!

That’s long before BushCo. started in on the Iraq WMD hoax: the WMD lies were merely the pretext for selling the war to the country. Warmonger McCain is merely being consistent in his support of war for Iraq’s oil.

That the administration lied about WMDs in Iraq has been known for years. McClellan’s revelations aren’t new, save as an admission of his complicity in war crimes.

Because the following is what the Intelligence said up until the point Bush restricted the Intelligence Congress go to see after 9-11.

Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions, 1 January Through 30 June 1999, Unclassified Report to Congress from the Director of Central Intelligence, [b]February 2000[/b]
http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/bian_feb_2000.htm
. . . We do not have any direct evidence that Iraq has used the period since Desert Fox to reconstitute its WMD programs . . .

Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions, 1 July Through 31 December 1999, Unclassified Report to Congress from the Director of Central Intelligence, [b]August 2000[/b]
http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/bian_aug2000.htm
. . . We do not have any direct evidence that Iraq has used the period since Desert Fox to reconstitute its WMD programs . . .

Acquisition of Technology Relating to Weapons of Mass Destruction and Advanced Conventional Munitions, 1 January Through 30 June 2000, Unclassified Report to Congress from the Director of Central Intelligence, [b]February 2001[/b]
http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/bian_feb_2001.htm
. . . We do not have any direct evidence that Iraq has used the period since Desert Fox to reconstitute its WMD programs . . .

Not so fast. Remember what FReedom Fries were before they became freedom fries? Thats correct. They were French Fries.

And they became freedom fries because FRance’s intelligence stated there were no WMD in Iraq and Saddam was NOT in cahoots with Al Qaida.

As I recall the U.N. didn’t find enough evidence in Bush’s assertions of so called proof.

Why do you think the “coalition of the FEW” (small countries providing little assests) was all to be amassed by the great uniter?

From St. Petersburg Times (March 16, 2003):

“Though the United States is required by international treaty to be rid of chemical weapons by 2007, nearly 75 percent of the nation’s now-banned arms still exist. It amounts to a nationwide stockpile of 23,415 TONS of liquid sarin nerve agent, blister-causing mustard agent, a deadly nerve liquid called VX and variants…. Anniston, Alabama has 77,000 M-55 rockets filled with sarin or VX.”

You forgot what the UNSCOM team called the ‘intelligence’ provided to them by the Bush administration while they were in Iraq looking for those WMD, back in 2003: ‘garbage’

In fact, the U.S. claim that Iraq is developing missiles that could hit its neighbors – or U.S. troops in the region, or even Israel – is just one of the claims coming from Washington that inspectors here are finding increasingly unbelievable. The inspectors have become so frustrated trying to chase down unspecific or ambiguous U.S. leads that they’ve begun to express that anger privately in no uncertain terms.
[...]
# Example: satellite photographs purporting to show new research buildings at Iraqi nuclear sites. When the U.N. went into the new buildings they found “nothing.”
[...]
The inspectors do acknowledge, however, that they would not be here at all if not for the threat of U.S. military action.
So frustrated have the inspectors become that one source has referred to the U.S. intelligence they’ve been getting as “garbage after garbage after garbage.” In fact, Phillips says the source used another cruder word.
Inspectors Call U.S. Tips ‘Garbage’

So the idea that ‘every assessment’ said Hussein had WMD is just plain wrong, or a flat-out lie.

(And on a related note, couldn’t anybody ever ask McCain (and note to Chris Matthews: Pat Buchanan!) whether he has ever heard of, let alone read, the Downing Street Memos??)

I believed Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction as did every intelligence agency in the world and every assessment.

Yet, only one country and one president insisted that we go to war.

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you nailed it dr matt – best comment so far

Propagating a lie = LIAR.

McStupid believed THEM(sic) when THEY(sic) lied to us and so McGullible continues to tell the lie because THEY(sic) made it believable. Forget that McRepeater is doing just that, repeating the lie often enough so as to make others believe him, too.

The McLIAR has McSpoke!

R E M E M B E R:
THEY(sic) HATE US FOR OUR FREEDOMS…
… and so THEY(sic) debate the merits to undermining and legislating away those FREEDOMS!

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Not true. McCain’s simply wrong. But, to be honest, I’d rather be the “idiot”, amateur, and neophyte that I am, and have said that Powell’s presentation was a crock and that Chalabi was a liar, and be right, than to be an “intelligence agent” and be wrong.

Cheers,

“(CBS) When no weapons of mass destruction surfaced in Iraq, President Bush insisted that all those WMD claims before the war were the result of faulty intelligence. But a former top CIA official, Tyler Drumheller — a 26-year veteran of the agency — has decided to do something CIA officials at his level almost never do: Speak out.

He tells correspondent Ed Bradley the real failure was not in the intelligence community but in the White House. He says he saw how the Bush administration, time and again, welcomed intelligence that fit the president’s determination to go to war and turned a blind eye to intelligence that did not.

“It just sticks in my craw every time I hear them say it’s an intelligence failure. It’s an intelligence failure. This was a policy failure,” Drumheller tells Bradley.

Drumheller was the CIA’s top man in Europe, the head of covert operations there, until he retired a year ago. He says he saw firsthand how the White House promoted intelligence it liked and ignored intelligence it didn’t:

“The idea of going after Iraq was U.S. policy. It was going to happen one way or the other,” says Drumheller.

Drumheller says he doesn’t think it mattered very much to the administration what the intelligence community had to say. “I think it mattered it if verified. This basic belief that had taken hold in the U.S. government that now is the time, we had the means, all we needed was the will,” he says. ”
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/04/21/60minutes/main1527749.shtml

First, any half-witted chemist can make a chemical or biological WMD in their bathtub.

Second, whatever WMDs Iraq had were given to them by the United States and encouraged by us to us them during the Iraq-Iran War. Later, Sadamn would turn these weapons on his own people without much of a peep of protest from the United States

Third, our claim that Iraq was developing a nuclear weapon was iotally bogus, as has already been proven.

As usual, John McCain is letting his mouth move before consulting his brain.

That’s the point that has to be hammered home to every candidate who has been supportive of the invasion. To be honest, the main reason I never favored Hillary is her totally lame excuses for voting with the herd. I would have respected her candidacy a lot more if she had simply fessed up and said, truthfully, that she and most others figured a no vote was political suicide. Such an attitude doesn’t forgive the lack of investigation but it’s better than dodging the question all together.

They’re all complicit, up to their freakin eyebrows.

At this rate Huckabee could make a miraculous comeback. Seriously though, the shear volume of B.S. from McCain is bound to seep into all but the thickest of skulls. Even when he has Lieberman’s arm up his rump he keeps saying, and doing, such idiotic things. He just seems to be a less viable candidate every day, even if the GOP intended him to be a sacrificial lamb all along. They have to be thinking that they need someone who can complete a sentence without reversing his position to even make a showing in the general election.