Letters to the Editor
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Wrong on its face
Wrong is every one of the arguments McGarrett tries to so desperately make in a sad apologia for the neocon crazies who so wanted to take Saddam out, rationality and the facts be damned:
The intelligence gathering here was always going to be a mess and there was no way to know what the actual facts would be.
DEAD WRONG...people who used their heads knew the intelligence was being cooked from the get-go. The Bushies were determined to go in, no matter what. Just exactly why did Dick Cheney decide to darken the door of the CIA numerous times? Not to make nice or to pay a simple social call. As many agents have testified repeatedly, it was meant to intimidate them into creating a report that would lend credence to the Administration's claims of Saddam's involvement in 9/11 and in WMD. The whole issue of yellow cake in Niger was debunked, leading to the sliming of Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson. There wasn't anything they wouldn't do or say to those who dared to show that the whole motivation for attacking Iraq was built on false premises. There most definitely was a way to know what the actual facts were. They were discounted and dismissed, for they did not fit in to the plans Bush and Cheney had for Saddam.