NOYB wrote:

They're concealing the fact that Saddam had WMD...making them
complicit in
the deaths of 1500+ American GI's.

Hehe!!!!
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- 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.

"We conclude that the intelligence community was dead wrong in almost
all of its prewar judgments about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction,"
said a letter from the commission to President Bush. "This was a major
intelligence failure."

The panel -- called the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of
the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction -- formally
presents its report to Bush on Thursday morning.

An October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate warned that Iraq was
pursuing weapons of mass destruction, had reconstituted its nuclear
weapon program and had biological and chemical weapons.

The Bush administration used those conclusions as part of its argument
for the March 2003 invasion of Iraq.

But the Iraq Survey Group -- set up to look for weapons of mass
destruction or evidence of them in the country -- issued a final report
saying it saw no weapons or no evidence that Iraq was trying to
reconstitute them.

The commission's report said the principal cause of the intelligence
failures was the intelligence community's "inability to collect good
information about Iraq's WMD programs, serious errors in analyzing what
information it could gather and a failure to make clear just how much
of its analysis was based on assumptions rather than good evidence."

"The single most prominent a recurring theme" of its recommendations is
"stronger and more centralized management of the intelligence
community, and, in general, the creation of a genuinely integrated
community, instead of a loose confederation of independent agencies."

Bush appointed the nine-member commission led by Laurence Silberman, a
senior federal appellate court judge who also served in the Nixon and
Ford administrations, and former Sen. and Virginia Gov. Chuck Robb, a
Democrat.