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Originally posted by KSig RC
Ironically enough, you allow YOUR omnipresent biases to show here as well - unless you really think that France, Russia, and Germany honestly gave a shit about the intelligence, and were somehow looking past the millions of dollars in 'stolen'/misappropriated funds that were flowing in from the murderous Iraqi dictatorship?
Jesus dude - I get that Canada expressed concern over the reports, but FRANCE?!?? RUSSIA? Their inclusion weakens the argument to the point of lunacy.
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Look I included the countries because they had their own intelligence about the Iraq and Saddam... some that supported the US accusations, some that refuted them. As for the "blood" money... well guess what there are US and UK citizens and companies on the list as well, problem is that their identities haven't been made available to the public.
The issues that these countries expressed were actually somewhat intelligent and valid, but they didn't make the US media coverage in the drumming up to war... for instance France, Russia, Germany, Canada, Italy, and even the UK question the reliance on defector's intelligence... partitially because these people had an axe to grind, wanted to please the Bush Admninistration (they sign the cheques), and had a lot to gain.
Basically there was "talk" that the Bush administration had draw cunclusions first and then looked for intelligence to fit these conclusions... unfortunately with this approach objectivity is lost as politics influence the analysis of intelligence to fit the desdired "line"... this "talk" (well on media news sources and such) has gained more credance as more and more flaws are exposed in the pre-war planning and intelligence, flaws created by political interference in a "non-political" body (the intelligence community) that at it's core must remain objective to maintain peak effectiveness and credibility.