Yup, Karl Rove should be in jail.
As for those intelligence reports convincing everyone of WMD's, it's well known that the administration was already looking for a reason to tackle Iraq, so I'm willing to bet that there was a lot in those intelligence reports contradicting that narrative. I guarantee you Cheney and his minions only used what helped them sell the story and discarded the rest.
It wasn't a failure of intelligence reports. It was the failure of the American people and their politicians to see they were being sold an obvious pile of bullshit. Everyone was so blinded by blood-lust and unthinking patriotism after 9/11 that the Bush administration basically had carte blanche to whatever they wanted. It turned out that was invading Iraq.
As for those intelligence reports convincing everyone of WMD's, it's well known that the administration was already looking for a reason to tackle Iraq, so I'm willing to bet that there was a lot in those intelligence reports contradicting that narrative. I guarantee you Cheney and his minions only used what helped them sell the story and discarded the rest.
It wasn't a failure of intelligence reports. It was the failure of the American people and their politicians to see they were being sold an obvious pile of bullshit. Everyone was so blinded by blood-lust and unthinking patriotism after 9/11 that the Bush administration basically had carte blanche to whatever they wanted. It turned out that was invading Iraq.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
