"The real villain is Bush"

Don't tell the mainstream media or the Bush=Hitler crowd, but "Even Saddam himself believed his regime had weapons of mass destruction," according to [Sen. Pat] Roberts, head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, whose forthcoming report "has concluded that a worldwide intelligence failure led to the belief that Iraq's Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction before the war," reports FOXNews:

Roberts said the report generally concludes that intelligence agencies worldwide engineered an "assumption train" that led them to conclude that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.

Roberts said various Iraqi military officials thought other Iraqi officials controlled weapons of mass destruction, and that there was evidence that Iraq was poised to become the "Grand Central Station" of a trade in such weapons.

"These conclusions literally beg for changes within the intelligence community," he said. "What we had was a worldwide intelligence failure."

"People who had the WMD and all of that either kept it, sold it, hid it, so on and so forth," Roberts said. "Saddam, I think, still thinks today that he had it."

Roberts said the committee found that intelligence agencies [hobbled by the "Torricelli principle"] did not rely enough on "human intelligence" gathering after 1998. And after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, he said, intelligence agencies were more likely to base conclusions on incomplete information because they were worried about further attack.

Don't confuse us with the facts.  Bush lied.  If you don't believe us, just ask Saddam, as blogged here:

Insisting during the 30-minute hearing he was still the legitimate ruler of Iraq, the ousted dictator, in a hoarse voice, questioned the jurisdiction of the tribunal. 

"This is all a theatre. The real villain is Bush," said a thin-looking Saddam, referring to US President George W.Bush.

Saddam, visibly tired, defended his August 1990 invasion of Kuwait and refused to sign legal papers after seven charges were read against him.

[via Polipundit and Chrenkoff via InstaPundit]

Comments

[Wookiee]

Bush is a moron, with out question, but the sad fact is that the real villians are France Germany who told their population that the would not act to aid the US in "it's illigeal quest for cheep oil," while they were making billions in free oil from Sadam's manipulation of the UN Oil for Food Program.

[Sissy Willis]

Why are angry liberals such poor "spelers"?