 False statements preceded Iraq war, study finds WASHINGTON -- A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacCommentsview comments in forum Page 1 You need to be a member of CKA and be logged into the site, to comment on news. |
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The prevailing belief at the time was that Iraq did, indeed, have WMDs. Only after the invasion took place was it found that Iraq had chemical and biological weapons (which are WMDs) but that their nuclear program had essentially been hidden or perhaps spirited out of the country. Iraq was in posession of centrifuges whose dispostion is unknown but most likely they are in Iran which acknowledges ownership of more centrifuges then they have purchased from outside sources.
What I am getting at here is that the statements were conducive to the general consensus of international intelligence agencies at the time. They were later determined to be wrong.
Wrong and false are two different things.
(I dunno if English has an expression like it, but it comes down to "it is easy to say so now, with all the facts, but it doesn't change the situation we have now")
It is so easy to say how wrong "we" did then, but the actual important point is, how are we gonna solve it now?
What matters here is not that we know the statements were inaccurate as of now, but were they disseminated by people who knew at the time that the information was false.
The prevailing belief at the time was that Iraq did, indeed, have WMDs. Only after the invasion took place was it found that Iraq had chemical and biological weapons (which are WMDs) but that their nuclear program had essentially been hidden or perhaps spirited out of the country. Iraq was in posession of centrifuges whose dispostion is unknown but most likely they are in Iran which acknowledges ownership of more centrifuges then they have purchased from outside sources.
What I am getting at here is that the statements were conducive to the general consensus of international intelligence agencies at the time. They were later determined to be wrong.
Wrong and false are two different things.
Spin it, Bart. Spin it 'till yer dizzy.