Did Bush manipulate Iraq data?

[kandrathe]

If the IRA were targeting the US, I would guess we might be more involved.

Would you be so kind as to explain what the war against Iraq had to do with terrorism? Specifically with the terrorism responsible for the events of 9/11?

The "Axis Of Evil" stuff, and the subsequent gunboat diplomacy is not my idea of a proper course into alleviating the threat of terror from the planet. I stated before that the Bush vendetta with Iraq was established well before 9/11, or before Powell convinced the hawks that we might consider the UN response to the Iraq invasion plan that was prepared for Spring 2002. All the additional year of politics, WMD wimpering, Hans Blix manuverings aside, I suspected from the beginning that another war was inevitable. Not because of all the WMD crap, or even the brutal way he treated his own people, but because of his disregard for the armistice that was signed in 1991. Bush Sr. made some mistakes in how the war ended, but it was under Clinton's watch that whatever containment on him we had was lost.

Now, that said, I suspect that from a fighting terrorism POV, we have a good idea as to who is targeting us specifically. Al Queda certainly and overtly from their strongholds in Afghanistan, but I suspect that there is some information that we have that implicates Iraqi intelligence, and probably all those in the "Axis of Evil" in aiding, or coordinating some post 1991 anti-US terrorism. It is pretty clear that Iran has a long history of allowing many anti-western terrorist organizations access to set up training bases on their soil. North Korea has become the shady arms dealer of choice for most of the terrorist world.

And, then some bad intelligence... Czechs Retract Iraq Terror Link ... can contribute to make suspicions seem more real.

Or, maybe its just what he said on June 10th, Bush defends Saddam terror link claim.