Can I lend a small tidbit of insider information on intelligence?
Saturday, January 2nd, 2010I’m no intelligence expert even tho that was my MOS for 6 years.
One thing I do know with certainty is that sources of intelligence are nearly *always* checked out before passing it off as “good”.
When you’re trying to justify a war and full scale invasion, I have to believe (w/o actually being there) you check your sources first.
And then the next step would have been to scour Iraq for WMD’s by our terribly sophisticated satellites. (you’d be AMAZED at how powerful spy satellites are)
They neither checked out the source, nor did they come up with any pics to back up the intelligence.
That just doesn’t happen.
We scrubbed our sources with steel wool to make sure we weren’t sending in a Force Recon team with faulty intel, much less if there was going to be a war because of it.
I can’t stress enough how unlikely those series of events are.
To the 3rd poster:
If there were WMD’s, please provide me a link to read because everything I’ve heard and read suggests that there wasn’t any.
Repubs would have been throwing it in our faces 24/7