CIA admits lack of specifics on Iraqi weapons before invasion

November 30, 2003 10:49 AM

CIA admits lack of specifics on Iraqi weapons before invasion ...and then some justification etc etc follows
posted by Postroad (5 comments total)

Is that a weapon of mass destruction in your pocket? Or have I just been lying all this time?
posted by elwoodwiles at 11:34 AM on November 30, 2003

Well, the lack of specifics were apparently due to the lack of weapons.

Iraqi scientists never revived their long-dead nuclear bomb program, and in fact lied to Saddam Hussein about how much progress they were making before U.S.-led attacks shut the operation down for good in 1991, Iraqi physicists say.

And, for reference, we've still to this date not found a single Iraqi scientist who in their "liberation" has now confessed to a massive WMD program in Iraq. If the CIA had any information, it would have been information that there was no reason to invade. No wonder no one wanted the specifics.
posted by XQUZYPHYR at 11:40 AM on November 30, 2003

Oooh, I'm so shocked!
posted by billsaysthis at 11:55 AM on November 30, 2003

This is like the opposite of NewsFilter. Something like CouldaToldYaThatFilter.
posted by msacheson at 1:07 PM on November 30, 2003

Ladies and gentlemen, the tail has wagged the dog. Let us all learn something from this.
posted by Keyser Soze at 2:21 PM on November 30, 2003