Corroborating Evidence

How many people have to tell the same tale before we start paying attention? It should by now be beyond dispute that Bushco was itching to go to war with Iraq and that their concern was not with the facts but how to gin them up to get public buy-in.

Ex-CIA Official Faults Use of Data on Iraq

The former CIA official who coordinated U.S. intelligence on the
Middle East until last year has accused the Bush administration of
"cherry-picking" intelligence on Iraq to justify a decision it had
already reached to go to war, and of ignoring warnings that the country
could easily fall into violence and chaos after an invasion to
overthrow Saddam Hussein.

Paul R. Pillar, who was the national
intelligence officer for the Near East and South Asia from 2000 to
2005, acknowledges the U.S. intelligence agencies' mistakes in
concluding that Hussein's government possessed weapons of mass
destruction. But he said those misjudgments did not drive the
administration's decision to invade.

"Official intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs was flawed, but even with its flaws, it was not what led to the war," Pillar wrote in the upcoming issue of the journal Foreign Affairs. Instead, he asserted, the administration "went to war without requesting -- and evidently without being influenced by -- any strategic-level intelligence assessments on any aspect of Iraq."

"It has become clear that official intelligence was not relied on in making even the most significant national security decisions, that intelligence was misused publicly to justify decisions already made, that damaging ill will developed between [Bush] policymakers and intelligence officers, and that the intelligence community's own work was politicized," Pillar wrote.

The case for impeachment grows with every passing day.

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