CNN Online news reported earlier today that, "The U.S. intelligence community was 'simply wrong' in its assessments of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction capabilities before the U.S. invasion, according to a panel created to study those failures and recommend corrections to prevent them in the future." [1]
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The panel, titled the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction, formally presented its report to George W. Bush on Thursday, March 31st, over two years since the March 19, 2003 invasion of Iraq.

The panel concluded in a letter to Bush that "the Intelligence Community was dead wrong in almost all of its pre-war judgments about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. This was a major intelligence failure."

Whoops! Sorry! Excuse us! We blew your children and major cities to hell, but who cares. It wasn't our children. It wasn't our cities.

Maureen Down, Op-Ed Columist with the NY Times, wrote, "It is laughable that the report offers its most scorching criticism of the C.I.A. when the C.I.A. was simply doing what the White House and Pentagon wanted. Isn't that why Mr. Tenet was given the Medal of Freedom?" [2]

Dear America,
This is your war monger president. You know, George W. Bush. I've decided to attack the people of Iraq. To scare you, let's pretend Saddam Hussein might attack using a Weapon of Mass Destruction (WMD), a massive nuclear weapon, in less than 45 minutes. The real reason, of course, is my campaign supporters want access to their sweet crude. Therefore, I've created a new military strategy, a policy of pre-emptive war. Although Iraq hasn't attacked us, we can't allow a mushroom cloud to be the next smoking gun.

Many experts, including former U.S. weapons inspector, Scott Ritter, U.N. experts, Hans Blix and Mohammad El Baradei, warned that our intelligence was wrong. I have one word for them, "Don't Mess With Texas."

We have reports of aluminium tubes being shipped to Iraq. Although leading scientists from the Department of Energy have stated these would be unsuitable for weapons production, who listens to scientists. They're the same kinds of eggheads who constantly talk about global warming and evolution. I'm a war mongering president of faith. And, I have faith in Dick Cheney, Douglas Feith and Ahmad Chalibi. If they say Saddam Hussein has WMDs, then that's good enough for me!

We have reports of uranium shipments to Iraq from Niger. Although bloggers out there on the "Internets" have shown these to be cheap fabrications, we can't have national policy run by webheads with nothing to do but blog all day. What kind of country would we be then?

Now, read my lips. I'm the cowboy president. I would rather shoot first, and ask questions later. We might kill a few innocent Iraqis, but freedom's on the march. We will lose a few American soldiers, but that's what they signed up for. They could have joined the National Guard as I did... well, of course, I sent the National Guard over there this time. Well, they could have joined the Police Athlete League.

The important thing to remember is I don't make mistakes. I don't admit to mistakes. And, as Americans, we should never acknowledge mistakes.

God bless America, and nobody else...

sources:
[1] http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/03/31/intel.report/index.html
[2] http://nytimes.com/2005/03/31/opinion/31dowd.html?hp