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Bush blames own spies for Iraq uranium claims By PAUL KORING
Washington — Seeking to avert a credibility meltdown that could pose the first serious threat to his presidency, George W. Bush blamed his own spies yesterday, saying they had approved a now-discredited claim that Iraq tried to buy uranium for a nuclear-weapons program

Consider the Parallels with Vietnam
An Iraq War & Occupation Glossary By DAVID LINDORFF
The irony is that the "lesson" of Vietnam (which was supposedly taken to heart too by Secretary of State Colin Powell), was that the U.S. should not get involved in future wars unless the objective was clear and the public was solidly behind it. Yet here we have a war that, like Vietnam, was entered into based on a series of lies to the American public, and that, like Vietnam, has no clear objective.

Former Intelligence Officials, Arms Control Experts Say Bush Administration Misrepresented and Hyped Iraqi Threat US Newswire release
"This administration has had a faith-based intelligence attitude. It's top-down use of intelligence; 'we know the answers, give us the intelligence to support those answers.'"

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