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Reckon the 28 redacted pages may tell a different story
you can reckon whatever you want. I prefer to work with what is available. having said that, the 28 pages might tell more of the story, but I doubt it removes KSM's role in fundraising and organising.
Rubbish, they cherry-picked UNMOVIC reports to highlight the spurious claims of Iraqi non-compliance with inspections. One only has to remember the way Valerie Plame was outed as a CIA operative, due to hubby's dismissal of the Niger-uraniam theory, as an example of how they tried to suppress any evidence that did not support their unbridled march towards war
oh, they certainly cherry-picked anything that confirmed their biases (not unlike some in this thread) however they had to possess these biases to begin with in order to do so. in other words they all believed saddam had WMDs and they ignored any and all intelligence that indicated he didn't. the over-reliance on curveball is a perfect example of their attitude to intelligence gathering at the time. they were responsible for 'sexing up' any piece of info that supporting their preconceived position, but there is little evidence that bush et al honestly thought Iraq didn't possess weapons. they simply ignored any and all information that contradicted their firmly-held beliefs.
bush and his cronies believed their own spin.