Comments on: Rove takes blame for WMD failures; he should http://slashpolitics.reviewjournal.com/2010/03/rove-takes-blame-for-wmd-failures-he-should/ Everything Nevada politics Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:21:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: ColinFromLasVegashttp://slashpolitics.reviewjournal.com/2010/03/rove-takes-blame-for-wmd-failures-he-should/comment-page-1/#comment-256 ColinFromLasVegas Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:46:55 +0000 http://slashpolitics.lvcitylife.com/?p=861#comment-256 I believe that Darth Cheney's book, when it gets published, will ape Karl Rove's. Along with Bush's. They'll all have their different version about how they were blameless in the whole matter. And I think they are all speaking total falsehoods.I haven't read Vincent Bugliosi's book yet, but when I find it, I will.In the meantime, I just read another book about this whole WMD and Iraq War debacle: "The Italian Letter: How The Bush Administration Used A Fake Letter To Build The Case For War In Iraq" by Peter Eisner and Knut Royce (published in 2007).An interesting book that basically details how the CIA and other intelligence efforts were trying their best to inform the White House about there wasn't any WMD in Iraq, but Bush/Cheney didn't like what they were saying, so they created the WHIG (White House Iraq Group) to look for their own intelligence to back up their reasoning to go to war in Iraq. And this Italian letter detailing yellowcake uranium from Niger was used, even after it was revealed to come from an unrealiable intelligence source, and that the whole thing was fabricated and utterly false. But the WHIG used it anyways, which the President uttered a phrase about it to be the truth when it wasn't.Very interesting read. I highly encourage reading it. Just for your info, Steve. I believe that Darth Cheney’s book, when it gets published, will ape Karl Rove’s. Along with Bush’s. They’ll all have their different version about how they were blameless in the whole matter. And I think they are all speaking total falsehoods.

I haven’t read Vincent Bugliosi’s book yet, but when I find it, I will.

In the meantime, I just read another book about this whole WMD and Iraq War debacle: “The Italian Letter: How The Bush Administration Used A Fake Letter To Build The Case For War In Iraq” by Peter Eisner and Knut Royce (published in 2007).

An interesting book that basically details how the CIA and other intelligence efforts were trying their best to inform the White House about there wasn’t any WMD in Iraq, but Bush/Cheney didn’t like what they were saying, so they created the WHIG (White House Iraq Group) to look for their own intelligence to back up their reasoning to go to war in Iraq. And this Italian letter detailing yellowcake uranium from Niger was used, even after it was revealed to come from an unrealiable intelligence source, and that the whole thing was fabricated and utterly false. But the WHIG used it anyways, which the President uttered a phrase about it to be the truth when it wasn’t.

Very interesting read. I highly encourage reading it. Just for your info, Steve.

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