Still Cherry-Picking the Facts on Iraq/ by Scott Ridder

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I pulled myself away from the television set recently, enthralled as I was by the ongoing Winter Olympics, and took the time to wade through the massive quantities of information building up in my in box (electronic and otherwise) about the world we live in outside of the sports arena.One piece of information in particular caught my eye. The revelations made by retired CIA officer Paul Pillar in an article published in the March-April issue of the journal Foreign Affairs should come as a surprise to no one who has been following the disturbing case of Iraq and the missing weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

Mr. Pillar is a career intelligence officer with the CIA who served as the deputy chief of the Counterterrorist Center and, most recently, as the national intelligence officer for Near East/Middle East affairs from 2000 to 2005. His essay offers sound analysis to back up his claim that the Bush administration had made the decision to invade Iraq independent of any viable intelligence analysis to sustain the allegation that Iraq possessed undeclared and hidden WMD capability. This capability allegedly not only violated international law but also constituted a threat to the United States and the international community that justified the use of force.
http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/32213/

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1. Similar to the activity of their

"christian" base which cherry-picks in the bible to find passages to justify their hate and prejudice and ignoring the passages which would make them better human beings if they followed them. What sad, pathetic lives "christians" and "republicans" must live. So proud, they cannot admit their ignorance or their failures.