Lawmaker Says Intelligence Wrong on Iraq WMD (Rep. Jane Harman-D-CAL)

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pre-war U.S. intelligence assessments were wrong about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and President Bush should offer fixes in his State of the Union speech, the senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said on Friday.

Rep. Jane Harman of California said there were good reasons to support regime change in Baghdad, but better intelligence on Iraq could have allowed more time for diplomacy and to build international support for military action.

``But if 9/11 was a failure to connect the dots, it appears that the intelligence community, in the case of Iraq's WMD, connected the dots to the wrong conclusions,'' Harman said in a speech to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, a copy of which was released here.

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