Jeb Bush Says His Brother Was Misled Into War by Faulty Intelligence. That Isn’t What Happened.
Nothing really new here but because of Republicans such as Lindsey Graham and Bobby Jindal the public needs to be reminded of what actually happened.
But here’s the truth Jeb Bush and the others are hiding or eliding: George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and Co. were not misled by lousy intelligence; they used lousy intelligence to mislead the public.
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The Iraq war at its heart was not an intelligence failure. Bush, Cheney, and their comrades were hell-bent on invading Iraq—not because of inaccurate intelligence, but because of their own assumptions and desires. The war did not happen because of bad intel. Consequently, asking whether the invasion should have happened knowing what is now known is an irrelevant exercise. For the Bush-Cheney gang, it truly did not matter what the intelligence said. They were not victims. They were the perps.
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