White House 'buried British intelligence on Iraq WMDs' »
Posted By engineer 1 year, 3 months ago in NewsMI6 told Tony Blair before the invasion of Iraq that a high-placed Iraqi
source said that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction. The
intelligence was passed to the US but was buried by the White House,
according to a new book.
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engineer1 year, 3 months ago
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The book claimed that the former Prime Minister sent a top British spy to the Middle East in 2003 — three months before the invasion — to dig up enough intelligence to avoid war but that President Bush and Dick Cheney, the Vice-President, dismissed any claims or possible evidence that would stop military action.
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kboy1 year, 3 months ago
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Of course this ignors the fact that Saddam used nerve gas (A WMD for the uninformed) in vast quantity against the Iranians and every government in the world believed he had more. It ignores the hundreds of tons of Yellowcake and other dirty bomb components were found (and removed) from Saddam's arsenal. The source of the information on WMD's was thru the Germans that refused the US access to anything except summery s of statements by defectors from Iraq.
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skeptic2711 year, 3 months ago
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There is evidence Bush was planning an invasion of Iraq before 9/11. Why - because the conservatives were still mad that Bush Sr. didn't finish the job of removing Saddam Hussein after the first Gulf War. This was the real motivation for the war and Bush didn't want to let anything get in the way. That's why when the UN team that was looking for WMD wasn't finding any, Bush cut their mission short. Had they completed their mission and not found any, Bush wouldn't have had a reason to invade. So we invaded and no WMDs were found, and again the reasons for invading Iraq seemed weak, so new evidence such as the yellow cake memo had to be fabricated.
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spkguy1 year, 3 months ago
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The secret Downing Street memo
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"C reported on his recent talks in Washington. There was a perceptible shift in attitude. Military action was now seen as inevitable. 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."
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