THE LEFT WAS RIGHT AND THE RIGHT WAS WRONG

An array of damning links:

U.S. insiders say Iraq intel deliberately skewed

The DIA was ''exploited and abused and bypassed in the process of making the case for war in Iraq based on the presence of WMD,'' or weapons of mass destruction, he added in a phone interview. He said the CIA had ''no guts at all'' to resist the allegedly deliberate skewing of intelligence by a Pentagon that he said was now dominating U.S. foreign policy.

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How the UK and the US Manipulated UN Reports

For example, they were able to detect that anthrax growth media had been burnt and buried in bulk at a site next to the production facility at al-Hakam. There was no way - and there never will be - to tell from the soil samples the amount destroyed. As a result, UN inspectors recorded this material as unaccounted for: neither verified destroyed nor believed to still exist.

Translated into statements by the British and US governments, it became part of "stockpiles" that they claimed Iraq was hiding from the inspectors. Both governments knew UN inspectors had not found any nuclear, chemical or biological weapons in Iraq since at least 1994, aside from a dozen abandoned mustard shells, and that the vast majority of any weapons produced before 1991 would have degraded to the point of uselessness within 10 years.

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General calls intelligence 'wrong'

"It was a surprise to me then, it remains a surprise to me now, that we have not uncovered weapons," Lt. Gen. James Conway, commander of the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force, said from Baghdad in a teleconference with reporters in Washington.

"It's not for lack of trying," he continued. "We've been to virtually every ammunition supply point between the Kuwaiti border and Baghdad, but they're simply not there."

Conway said he still believes it is possible that weapons of mass destruction will be found. But his comments are likely to feed concern in Washington that the prewar intelligence on Iraq was flawed.

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We Were Right: An Iraq War and Occupation Overview

It was a glorious victory, proclaimed by none other than our conquering commander-in-chief as he zoomed onto the deck of the U.S.S. Lincoln: we had "prevailed" in the war against Iraq, and the pro-war pundits, drunk with bloodlust, were delirious with joy. They had been proven right! Now, it would only be a matter of time before the grateful Iraqis, hailing their "liberation," abandoned their old-fashioned fetish for independence, and gave up Islam for Ikea. Except it didn't turn out that way, now did it….?

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Thanks to J. Orlin Grabbe.

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