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Titolo: [WMD Requiem] Ex-CIA agent says WMD intelligence ignored (Reuters)

   E adesso attenti alla fusione del nocciolo del reattore  a m...a De 
Cessis Mk 1!
Am.
 Ex-CIA agent says WMD intelligence ignored
 Fri Apr 21, 5:39 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The CIA had evidence Iraq possessed no weapons of 
mass destruction six months before the 2003 U.S.-led invasion but was 
ignored by a White House intent on ousting Saddam Hussein, a former 
senior CIA official said according to CBS.
Tyler Drumheller, who headed CIA covert operations in Europe during the 
run-up to the Iraq war, said intelligence opposing administration claims 
of a WMD threat came from a top Iraqi official who provided the U.S. spy 
agency with other credible information.
The source "told us that there were no active weapons of mass 
destruction programs," Drumheller said in a CBS interview to be aired on 
Sunday on the network's news magazine, "60 Minutes."
"The (White House) group that was dealing with preparation for the Iraq 
war came back and said they were no longer interested," he was quoted as 
saying in interview excerpts released by CBS on Friday.
"We said: 'Well, what about the intel?' And they said: 'Well, this isn't 
about intel anymore. This is about regime change'," added Drumheller, 
whose CIA operation was assigned the task of debriefing the Iraqi 
official.
He was the latest former U.S. official to accuse the White House of 
setting an early course toward war in Iraq and ignoring intelligence 
that conflicted with its aim.
CBS said the CIA's intelligence source was former Iraqi Foreign Minister 
Naji Sabri and that former CIA Director George Tenet delivered the 
information personally to President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick 
Cheney and other top White House officials in September 2002. They 
rebuffed the CIA three days later.
"The policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming and they were looking 
for intelligence to fit into the policy," the former CIA agent told CBS.
U.S. allegations that Saddam had WMD and posed a threat to international 
security was a main justification for the March 2003 invasion.
A 2002 National Intelligence Estimate, to which the CIA was a major 
contributor, concluded that prewar Iraq had an active nuclear program 
and a huge stockpile of unconventional weapons.
No such weapons have been found, however, and U.S. assertions that they 
existed are now regarded as a hugely damaging intelligence failure.
But Drumheller, co-author of a forthcoming book entitled "On the Brink: 
How the White House Has Compromised American Intelligence," rejects the 
notion of an intelligence failure.
"It just sticks in my craw every time I hear them say it's an 
intelligence failure," he told CBS. "This was a policy failure."

destruction programs,"
Che e' ben diverso da dire "non c'erano armi di distruzione di massa" :)
-Stefano

 Che e' ben diverso da dire "non c'erano armi di distruzione di massa" :)
peccato che e' su *quel* presupposto che e' stata fatta la guerra,non 
su gli esemplari da museo.
E infatti la conclusione e' chiara, limpida, cristallina:
"U.S. allegations that Saddam had WMD and posed a threat to 
international security was a main justification for the March 2003 
invasion.
A 2002 National Intelligence Estimate, to which the CIA was a major 
contributor, concluded that prewar Iraq had an active nuclear program 
and a huge stockpile of unconventional weapons.
No such weapons have been found, however, and U.S. assertions that they 
existed are now regarded as a hugely damaging intelligence failure."
A te l'onore delle (WMD) armi, Toshiro Mifune all'Amatriciana:
http://www.esercito.difesa.it/root/media/musiche/caserma/silenzio.mp3
Am.
PS:  auguri per lo "hugely damaged" single-celled brain...

PS:  auguri per lo "hugely damaged" single-celled brain...
Eh... Fattelo curare se e' cosi' "hugely damaged" :)
-Stefano

 WMD sono state trovate dall'IAEA in Iraq prima del conflitto :)
Cosa che tu non sei minimamente in grado di provare, come dimostrato 
numerose volte.
Ma cio' che e' piu' importante e' che numerosi alti funzionari della 
Amministrazione USA  abbiano affermato che non ci siano mai stati 
*programmi attivi di WMD* cioe' il *motivo* per cui si e' fatta la 
guerra.
Consiglio: un onorevole seppuku.
Am.

Consiglio: un onorevole seppuku.
Ti passo la spada e ti uccidi da solo? :)
-Stefano

 -Stefano
Non ne ho motivo. Piuttosto non fartela addosso nel momento critico, non 
e' onorevole.
Come in questo tuo ritratto:
http://www.ovao.com/video/121/Chimpanzee-peeing
Per la spada rivolgiti al fornitore di Uma Thurman in Kill Bill.
Cheers,
Am.

 
http://www.ovao.com/video/121/Chimpanzee-peeing
Perche' passi i link alle tue foto da piccolo, povero *FESSO
MONONEURONE*? :)
-Stefano

 -Stefano
Hai ragione,dovrei tenere conto che appartieni ad una specie differente.
Ugualmente, la prossima volta evita di fare le tue cose in pubblico:
http://www.nandoferrari.it/download/amplesso.jpg
Am.

Ugualmente, la prossima volta 
...eviterai di mostrarti per il *FESSO MONONEURONE* che sei?
Mah... Sarebbe un piccolo miracolo :)
-Stefano