They started with a conclusion, then worked back from there

They started with a conclusion, then worked backwards from there,
discarding information that didn't support that conclusion and exaggerating
data that did. Great methodology.

And their conclusion was, again, a sort of insanity. To believe them, you
would have to accept that Iraq was a terrible "imminent threat" to the
continental US and/or the middle east region AND, at the same time, accept that invading Iraq and deposing Saddam and the Baathist regime would be a walk in the park and the Iraqi citizens would shower us with thanks.

NEW: http://www.laweekly.com/ink/04/13/news-cooper.php

OLD: http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content?030512fa_fact

The link that displays an assortment of newstories of the CIA and other intellegence agencie's doubts of an Iraqi threat before the war:

http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=24889

Anyone that says the intellingence agencies were on the same page up to the war as osp, bush and his administation, is either uninformed, deluding
themselves, has a terrible memory or is flat out lying. They are not
including stories from not just the recent past (2001-2003), but REALLY
recent past....like two weeks ago.....such as these:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/10/14/60II/main577975.shtml

http://www.ceip.org/files/projects/npp/resources/iraqintell/home.htm#intell

http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=26241

on the phrase "immiment threat":
http://www.americanprogress.org/site/pp.asp?c=biJRJ8OVF&b=24970

Do you remember any of this?