Finally....finally...

[kentuck]

Senator Pat Roberts has done everything in his power to keep the truth concealed for the last 3 or 4 years. Finally, the truth is coming out. The question is: Will it stay around long enough for the people to see?
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060909/ap_on_go_co/iraq_report

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WASHINGTON -
Saddam Hussein rejected overtures from al-Qaida and believed Islamic extremists were a threat to his regime, a reverse portrait of an Iraq allied with Osama bin Laden painted by the Bush White House, a Senate panel has found.

The administration's version was based in part on intelligence that White House officials knew was flawed, according to Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee, citing newly declassified documents released by the panel.

The report, released Friday, discloses for the first time an October 2005
CIA assessment that prior to the war Saddam's government "did not have a relationship, harbor or turn a blind eye toward" al-Qaida operative Abu Musab al-Zarqawi or his associates.

As recently as an Aug. 21 news conference,
President Bush said people should "imagine a world in which you had Saddam Hussein" with the capacity to make weapons of mass destruction and "who had relations with Zarqawi."

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[HereSince1628]

1. But there is still more to be released, right?

I thought there is more to come about */Cheney creative use of misinformation to take the country to war.

This report basically seems to argue for them, it was bad intelligence, but who could have known?

[snappyturtle]

2. I learned on Washington Journal this morning.....

that there are two to three more parts of this report to still come out!

[Nite Owl]

3. And I wouldn't be surprised if

they were holding it until after the election because it would be too 'political'.

[babylonsister]

7. If they allowed for the least damaging part of the report to surface,

and this is it, I cannot imagine what info bombs are about to drop.

[snappyturtle]

8. Time for

:popcorn:! I can't wait but I agree with the poster above you that it would be too political for these parts to come out before the election!

[rock]

4. "was based in part on (flawed) intelligence... "

They sure looked for fancy ways to say "was based on lies".

[leesa]

6. They specifically say "flawed intelligence" so they can blame it on

the CIA even though the CIA was the one saying Saddam and Al Qaeda don't get along. The WH and their pet Congress have been using this ruse all along for anything related to their lies about anything.

[Joe Chi Minh]

9. When what they really meant by "flawed intelligence" was the

defective intelligence of the neocon hawks, themselves...

Fair comment, but they should have expressed it less equivocally. Perhaps clarification on this specific point might be sought. If they deny the latter, they should state who it is they blame, if not the said hawks or the CIA experts, who we know were actually seeking to enlighte them, in the teeth of their invincible ignorance and hostility.

[mbee]

5. And now you know why the 9/ll PACK OF LIES is coming out to

protect Cheney and his imbecile chimp!