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Sorry, you're wrong. Since you have zero first hand experience, maybe you should do better research. Saddam went to great lengths to prop the illusion of WMDs as a deterrent against Iran and the satellite photos / fake communications helped bite him in the ass. Aside from that, Israel passed on some poor speculative intelligence but no one (and many motivated [including independent, Anti-Israeli and opposing Israeli political party] Iinvestigators tried) could find any deliberately misleading intelligence shared with the United States on Iraq WMD in the 2003 time frame. Period. That's the fact whether you're happy with it or not.Of course I wouldnt. never claimed to.
couldnt agree more, never made the claim
No argument there. I dont know WTF your going off about, Im not miss Cleo. I dont claim to know whats in your mellon , outside of a fanatical support for a foreign country. You have made that pretty freakin clear
you mean America or Isreal?
well thats one opinion ,
President George W. Bush stated in October 2002 that "we cannot wait for the final proof -- the smoking gun -- that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud". [1, 2, 3]
Vice President Dick Cheney asserted in August 2002, “There is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction,”
A prominent Israeli MP said yesterday that his country's intelligence services knew claims that Saddam Hussein was capable of swiftly launching weapons of mass destruction were wrong but withheld the information from Washington.
Israel knew Iraq had no WMD, says MP
Associated Press
Wed 4 Feb 2004 03.55 EST
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A prominent Israeli MP said yesterday that his country's intelligence services knew claims that Saddam Hussein was capable of swiftly launching weapons of mass destruction were wrong but withheld the information from Washington.
"It was known in Israel that the story that weapons of mass destruction could be activated in 45 minutes was an old wives' tale," Yossi Sarid, a member of the foreign affairs and defence committee which is investigating the quality of Israeli intelligence on Iraq, told the Associated Press yesterday.
"Israel didn't want to spoil President Bush's scenario, and it should have," he said.
Another member of the committee, Ehud Yatom, said Israel had told the Americans it believed the weapons existed but had not seen them.
On Sunday, the former UN weapons inspector, Scott Ritter, told Y-Net, an Israeli newswire, that the Israeli intelligence services reached the conclusion years ago that Iraq no longer had weapons of mass destruction.
"In the end, if the Israeli intelligence knew that Iraq did not have weapons of mass destruction, so the CIA knew it and thus British intelligence too" he said.
In November 2003, a respected Tel Aviv thinktank concluded that Israeli intelligence had joined the US and Britain in an "exaggerated assessment" of Iraqi weapons.
Brom, a senior researcher at one of Israel’s leading think tanks, the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, said intelligence produced by Israel played a significant role in augmenting the case for toppling Hussein.
Israel knew Iraq had no WMD, says MP
A prominent Israeli MP said yesterday that his country's intelligence services knew claims that Saddam Hussein was capable of swiftly launching weapons of mass destruction were wrong but withheld the information from Washington.www.theguardian.com
Times Staff Writer
JERUSALEM — A former senior Israeli military intelligence official asserted Thursday that the nation’s spy agencies were a “full partner” to the United States and Britain in producing flawed prewar assessments of Iraq’s ability to mount attacks with weapons of mass destruction.
The sharply worded report by Shlomo Brom, a brigadier general in the army reserves, prompted one lawmaker to call for an independent inquiry into the performance of Israeli intelligence before the start of hostilities in Iraq.
In Britain, Prime Minister Tony Blair has been hounded by domestic critics who say prewar intelligence on Hussein’s weapons program was either flawed or exaggerated -- or both -- in order to support President Bush’s decision to go to war.
Bush also has faced criticism over the lack of proof that Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, though the U.S. president has not been forced to expend nearly as much political capital as Blair in fending off contentions that the threat was deliberately distorted.
Ex-General Says Israel Inflated Iraqi Threat
Shlomo Brom asserts his nation's spy agencies helped U.S. and Britain make case for war.www.latimes.com
The official rationale for the war was a claim by the US intelligence community that the Saddam regime possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) that could endanger regional and global security. Despite feverish searches by the army and CIA operatives, no signs of their existence were found in Iraq. In February 2004, Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair were forced to establish a commission to look into the reasons for the intelligence failure.
Teams of inspectors were sent to Iraq, headed by David Kay and later by Charles Duelfer, who in the 1990s had led a number of UN inspection teams in Iraq. The inspectors’ conclusion was that prior to the war there had been no operational WMDs in Iraq because their production had ceased after the 1991 Gulf War. At that time, Saddam was more troubled by the international economic sanctions against Iraq than by an American attack. He does appear to have hoped to renew the nonconventional-weapons programs at some stage, but most of all, he wanted to get the sanctions lifted.
There is a whole shit ton more information about the ""faulty"" Israel intelligence if you care to do your own home work.
It seems to be common knowledge they supplied the CIA with bad intell . But I guess you bought the whole thing hook line and sinker without ever questioning it
