do you think cia really was wrong and mislead bush administration OR (2 other options)?

Question

OR, here are the choices.

1. CIA wrong and mislead Bush admin by mistake due to incompetency
2. bush didnt listen to what they had to say pr take it seriously enough
3. cia intentionally mislead bush admin due to internal politics and thats why he cleaned house
4. everybody was clueless and thought we were invincible
5. cia didnt even bring it to bush's attention properly

Vote now one thru 5.

Answer 1

Option # 6: The big lie. Bush and Cheney had made their plan for Iraq before 9/11. They were not concerned about any of the smoke they have blown about Iraq and Saddam. Halliburton has made billions on the war. The arms business has made billions on this war. The Saudi Prince, close friend of the Bush family, wants unrest in Iraq. Oil is the game and the Bush family has been a player in that world for decades. Don't bite on that apple that they were misinformed or they were clueless. They have know what they were doing and wanted from day one. It is us who have been misinformed, we got the bad "intelligence."

Answer 2

I believe it was a combination of 1,2,3 &4.

I know there was fighting between the FBI & the CIA. I believe that the President wanted this war based on advice from Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld. (Those 2 being the ultra hawks they are) I believe Colin Powell was against moving out of Afghanistan and into Iraq and resigned. I also believe the information may not have been quite as accurate as many want to believe it was. Although there was a ton of humlint available, that information is filtered through several people before it gets to the President so I feel mistakes were made on the way up. And it comes down to this. Iraq in my opinion was a mistake. Afghanistan was not. Sadly, we are there so I feel we need to finish what we started. Wish it wasn't so, but we have to deal with what we have.

Answer 3

option 6. The supposed misinformation was a smoke screen. Bush, Cheney and their ilk were determined to invade Iraq well before the 9/11 attack. If you recall we attacked Afghanistan because of it and because they harbored Al Quida training camps. That was used as a lead in for our attacking Iraq. Bush & his cronies used the politics of fear very effectivly against us to make us believe that what they were doing was right. Unfortunately for us enough of us believed them in the highly emotional state we were in after 9/11. I can't say that Saddam wasn't a bad leader and shouldn't have been deposed but the BS that we were fed to justify it is just that. BS! Any WMDs that they may have had (and they didn't as has been proven) were supplied by us during the Iraqi war with Iran years earlier. I find it reprehensible to use the sort of tactics they did to coerce the American public into believing that we were doing the right thing. We were used & lied to! They played upon our fears while we were still in shock over the destruction of the World Trade Center.

Answer 4

Military intelligence is not an exact science. You get rumors, concepts, conversations, and hearsay, but very little in the way of facts.

Lots of information was reported in the media prior to the invasion of Iraq that supported the idea that Saddam had WMDs, and there was also lots to the contrary.

I personally think that Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld were intent upon attacking Iraq, and thus accepted as true the pro-WMD info and discredited the anti-WMD info.

Answer 5

Of those choices I would have say #2, but I think there should be a #6- bush lied and forced the CIA to take the blame for it.

Answer 6

None!

Bush was told by the CIA, they even wrote it in his speeches which were removed and put back in!

Bush knew before he attacked Iraq that he wasn't a terrorist and had nothing to do with 9/11

He was told the alum tubes could not produce what bush claimed he could. Bush knew there was no Yellow cake from Africa, just as CIA Operative Valerie Plame who's name was leaked by Bush! He knew that what was in his speech was based on forged documents, yet used it anyway! There was not one thing that Bush claimed Saddam had that Bush KNEW he had.

And the coup de crux was Tenet falling on his sword for Bush!

Answer 7

Pretty much all of it. Actually, why and how the Iraq war happened is still a mystry, even though many are saying that it is for oil and buiness (Halliburton). I hope that mystry will be solved when Bush says the truth behind the war in Iraq if he loses his presidency in 2008.

Answer 8

I think Bush wanted this war and it didn't matter one little bit what the CIA or anybody said. He lied about it. Why do we let him get by with this and why do some people not care if he lied.

Answer 9

1.

Answer 10

Absolutely and only number 1. This war has only beena divider for this country and I cannot see this as actually ever being forseen as a great thing to do.