the poster of this thread needs to learn the definition of facts, his argument is straight off Fox News, blaming Congress and the CIA, for the outright lies of the Bush administration, it is pure partisan Repub spin.
Read the Wash. Post, Newsweek, etc., great articles over the last month or so-
Cheney and Rumsfeld faked all that intelligence- they handpicked their own people
to directly exam incoming intel, people who were NOT experts on WMD, Iraq, etc., they
passed this intel directly to Bush, Powell, the UN, etc., even though the experts at the CIA, Air Force, etc., ALL were saying the intel was wrong. However, due to the nature of their jobs, they could
not and can not speak out in public, but they are incensed. I don't have time right now, but
will get some of the articles later (many are saved on my hard drive at home)
I too joined the Repubs to campaign for McCain, have spent the last few years attempting to work within the Repub party, but the religious bigotry and intolerance makes it impossible- the 'Big Tent'
means you can be from any ethnic minority, but you MUST be a Xian fundamentalist to go anywhere in the party, otherwise you are a figleaf, like Whitman at the EPA.