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Entry: The Smoking Gun Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_smoking_gun#5066 Post contents: While these new revelations are surely interesting, they pretty much fit the narrative we've all come to know: the Bush Administration wanted war with Iraq; WMD was just the excuse. A careful reading of the Robb Silberman Report implicitly says much the same thing. The conclusion that Iraq was pursuing a nuclear weapon was based on two bits of intelligence: uranium forgeries and aluminum tubes. The conclusion that Iraq had an active bio weapons program came from the defector Curveball. Finally, the conclusion that Iraq had active facilities producing chemical weapons was based on suspicious truck activity, and a few other incidental details. Why is this important? Because all this "intelligence" had already been debunked before the war was underway. The IAEA released its report on March 7th, 2003 stating that the aluminum tubes were not for uranium enrichment and that the uranium documents were forgeries. Curveball's testimony was known to be a fantasy. And finally, Hans Blix inspected all the sites mentioned by Colin Powell that were alleged involved in producing chemical weapons, and he turned up nothing. So all the intelligence -- every last bit of it -- had already been debunked before we went to war. Of course Congress's hands were tied because they had already (foolishly) given Bush authority to wage war in Iraq. But Bush took the United States to war just as the case for war had been refuted. This is criminal. This is just like Mr Nifong, except Bush didn't railroad a few frat boys, but the entire country. Impeachment is too easy. Bush needs to face criminal charges. Sent at: 2008 12 02