Quote Originally Posted by tony
Okay.. first of all I don't know how old you were in 2002 but I CLEARLY remember Bush petitioning congress for authorization to declare war on Iraq.. anyone who voted against was black balled at the time. He himself cannot declare war but he can use his position to coerce, it starts with him.. everything else is just checks and balances.

2. We took intelligence from 2 sources on Iraq's involvment with Al Qaida. One was Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, he was the one that stated that Iraq aided Al Qaida with chemical weapons training. The second was codenamed "Curve Ball" (Rafid Ahmed Alwan) now obviously on a public level this is general knowledge because even if I did know absolute classified info (which I don't) I wouldn't be talking about it here.

But al-libi, as stated in the 2006 9/11 commission report gave false information under TORTURE. That information led to the petition for the Declaration of War.

Curve Ball wasn't even an U.S informant, he dealt with the Germans. Detested America for some reason, and I believe he was the one that stated Iraq had rolling nuclear programs.. well, he lied.

So again you say we had intelligence that Iraq was harboring terrorists and had a nuclear program.. I give you the two sources for that intelligence, both of which are now discredited.
im no where near done reading that report just yet(that b!tch is long) but if they discredited it in 2006, then where where they in 2003?

and also so you can read the same thing im reading if you want to it is right here http://www.gpoaccess.gov/serialset/creports/Iraq.html