Condi Acknowledges Flaws in Iraq Intelligence

[Bhaisahab]

"I think that what we have is evidence that there are differences between what we knew going in and what we found on the ground," Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) told CBS.
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In a series of television interviews, Rice defended Bush's decision and said the United States may never learn the whole truth about Iraq's arms capabilities because of looting, which U.S. forces failed to stop immediately after the invasion.
full story: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=574&ncid=721&e=1&u=/nm/20040130/wl_nm/iraq_usa_dc

so the latest excuse: the WMD were there, but the looters got to them before our crack army units could.

can u believe her gall?! look at her expression in this photo. its like she's saying- "my way or the highway."

[punpirate]

1. She'll be very popular with corporations...

... after she leaves the administration. She's become an accomplished liar.

[whathappened]

2. there is something wrong

with her , this must be why she was brought into this nitemare we are having in this country , , just look at her face and see the cheating and lie's that come from her mouth hole

[OneTwentyoNine]

3. So,how long does the CIA sit still for this crap?

Flawed my ass,the intel wasn't quite up to what Chimpboy wanted so he made it up as he went. Everyone knows that intel that Powell read was bogus,even Powell knew it but he went ahead anyway.

I'd love to work at the CIA dealing in all this shit,putting your life on the line daily just to have some Cowboy trashing all the work you did.

David

[Ilsa]

6. And blaming the military for a failure to stop looting.

She'll be really popular at the Pentagon, I bet.

[truthspeaker]

9. especially when the State Dept. and CIA specifically warned about looting

AND had a plan to deal with it, which the OSP ignored.

[mac56]

10. Doesn't it seem that someone with the last name of "Bush" -

ought to know NOT to cross the CIA?

Poppy was the director, for cripes sake.

[Loonman]

4. Before or after she lied and dodged some more?

She's so incompetent.

[KG]

5. the flaw lies in the intelligence of the junta to think they could

ever pull this off.

[DrBB]

7. Her excuses are always worse

...than what they're supposed to be excusing. Remember the 16 Little Words excuse? Wilson's report about yellowcake was "lost in the bureaucracy somewhere." Well, um, gee, Condi, that's kinda not such a reassuring story since it was a report about the credibility of a nuclear threat to the United States and you're supposed to be, how shall I put this, like the National Security Adviser 'n' stuff. The only place that "excuse" should have ever appeared in public was on your resignation letter, but there you still are.

Now her latest one. "We went in there to prevent WMDs from going high, wide and handsome to terrorists or other unstable regimes, and the reason we didn't find any is cuz, well, in the chaos of the war, they all got, y'know, looted 'n' stuff." Well, guess it wasn't such a great plan after all, but "no one could have predicted it" right Condi? No one you know, anyhow, and since you don't listen to anyone else that means no one at all.

How about this one, Condi, I think it covers just about everything:

"Yes, in hindsight it does appear that we've blown the country's credibility for years to come, killed and maimed thousands of people needlessly, gratuitously raised the threat level to the US, alienated and demoralized our intelligence community, overstretched our military, spent needless hundreds of billions of dollars in a Middle East quagmire (and more to come!). And in hindsight it also appears that we've saddled the country with a debt it can never pay off, increased the disparity between rich and poor, dismantled the social safety net, all without generating any net increase in jobs--quite the opposite--and undermined world-wide confidence in our financial system. But see, it's not our fault, cuz we weren't elected and also we're led by a guy who's, y'know, a pretty nice fella and everything but he is kind of a moran, so I guess in hindsight you'd have to say it was inevitable, but after all no one ever predicted morans flying the country into a brick wall did they? Hindsight is 20/20, my mother always said.

"Well, that covers it nicely I think. Next question, please."

[leftchick]

8. omg....look at this reuters photo of condiliar!

Is she losing it or what?!?

[DrBB]

11. IMPORTANT ammunition for this debate (link)

Neglecting Intelligence, Ignoring Warnings

A chronology of how the Bush Administration repeatedly and deliberately refused to listen to intelligence agencies that said its case for war was weak

To be found here

Thanks to DUer Carl21014 for finding this.