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Small in comparison to the outlandish claims made by the administration. Claims that turned out to be long on hype and short on substance. Remember Condaleeza Rice's mushroom cloud remark? So called "facts" were shaped and reshaped to fit a policy that had already been decided upon. Unfortunately, in the wake of 9/11, Bush administration lies, er, statements were accepted as truth by the so called "liberal" mainstream media conservatives like to complain so much about.




  So, none of the reports interest you, including the Iraq Survey Group, not surprising considering the conclusions.  How about the Downing Street Memo? The memo recorded the head of MI6 as expressing the view, following a trip to Washington, that "Bush wanted to remove Saddam, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." The memo also quoted British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw as saying that it was clear that Bush had "made up his mind" to take military action but that "the case was thin".


I'm not surprised that you cling so stubbornly to a discredited belief, as stubbornness is a characteristic you have put on display in the past. However, in this case, you're allowing it to fly in the face of logic.


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