“Key Assertions Leading to War Were Wrong”

July 9, 2004 D. H. McKee

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The Central Intelligence Agency greatly overestimated the danger presented by deadly unconventional weapons in Iraq because of runaway assumptions that were never sufficiently challenged, the Senate Intelligence Committee said today.
In a long-awaited report that goes to the heart of President Bush’s rationale for going to war against Iraq, the committee said that prewar assessments of Saddam Hussein’s supposed arsenal of chemical and biological weapons, and his desire to have nuclear weapons, were wildly off the mark.
“Today, we know these assessments were wrong, and as our inquiry will show, they were also unreasonable and largely unsupported by the available intelligence,” Senator Pat Roberts, the Kansas Republican who heads the panel, said at a briefing on the 511-page report.
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/09/national/09CND-INTEL.html

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As a guy who occasionally curates art shows and wrangles artists together, I often have to edit and post artist bios, profile pictures, and artwork images. This can be a problem, since many artists and writers aren’t used to selling themselves. Artists rarely know how to present their art for display in a brochure, and writers aren’t used to writing about themselves.

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