Iraq: Bush admits intelligence was faulty, takes 'responsibility', doesn't resign
scotsman:Bush admits Iraq intelligence was faulty but fails to mollify critics
George Bush, the United States president, last night took the blame for going to war with Iraq over faulty intelligence, but said he was right to topple Saddam Hussein.
"It is true that much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong," he said. "As president I am responsible for the decision to go into Iraq, and I am also responsible for fixing what went wrong by reforming our intelligence capabilities, and we're doing just that." He urged Americans to be patient as Iraqis vote.
Speaking on the eve of elections in Iraq, Mr Bush said his decision to remove Saddam Hussein was the right one, because Saddam was deemed a threat. The president added: "We are in Iraq today because our goal has always been more than the removal of a brutal dictator" Read more
db: Or as Harold Pinter put it:
"The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law. The invasion was an arbitrary military action inspired by a series of lies upon lies and gross manipulation of the media and therefore of the public; an act intended to consolidate American military and economic control of the Middle East masquerading - as a last resort - all other justifications having failed to justify themselves - as liberation. A formidable assertion of military force responsible for the death and mutilation of thousands and thousands of innocent people.
We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call it 'bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East'." [see 18MB WMV movie of Pinter's Nobel lecture here]
George Bush, the United States president, last night took the blame for going to war with Iraq over faulty intelligence, but said he was right to topple Saddam Hussein.
"It is true that much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong," he said. "As president I am responsible for the decision to go into Iraq, and I am also responsible for fixing what went wrong by reforming our intelligence capabilities, and we're doing just that." He urged Americans to be patient as Iraqis vote.
Speaking on the eve of elections in Iraq, Mr Bush said his decision to remove Saddam Hussein was the right one, because Saddam was deemed a threat. The president added: "We are in Iraq today because our goal has always been more than the removal of a brutal dictator" Read more
db: Or as Harold Pinter put it:
"The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant state terrorism, demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept of international law. The invasion was an arbitrary military action inspired by a series of lies upon lies and gross manipulation of the media and therefore of the public; an act intended to consolidate American military and economic control of the Middle East masquerading - as a last resort - all other justifications having failed to justify themselves - as liberation. A formidable assertion of military force responsible for the death and mutilation of thousands and thousands of innocent people.
We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium, innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to the Iraqi people and call it 'bringing freedom and democracy to the Middle East'." [see 18MB WMV movie of Pinter's Nobel lecture here]
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