Re: Told you so...

[JoeRaisin <joeraisin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert L Bass wrote:
> Study Finds No Link Between Saddam, bin Laden
> by Michele Norris and Tom Gjelten
>
> All Things Considered, March 12, 2008 · A Pentagon-sponsored study of
> 600,000 Iraqi documents captured after the 2003 invasion shows that no
> direct operation link existed between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin
> Laden's terrorist network.
>
> The Bush administration claimed such a relationship to support its
> arguments for invading Iraq, though the U.S. intelligence community had
> conflicting evidence on the issue.
>
> The study of the documents reportedly was completed last year by a
> federally funded think tank, the Institute for Defense Analyses.
>
> That's Bush's own people saying he lied.
>

You can't cherry pick - it also says that being wrong ISN'T lying unless
you KNOW you are wrong at the time you say it.

Because the intelligence was conflicting he could have believed what he
was saying.