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You're assuming the CIA actually believed there were WMDs in Iraq.. Now did the CIA believe that Sadam would have re-built them the first chance he got? Very p
by nol13 10y ago
You're assuming the CIA actually believed there were WMDs in Iraq..
Now did the CIA believe that Sadam would have re-built them the first chance he got? Very probably.
(and ok i guess technically they could still be buried out in the desert somewhere, has this been ruled out?)
- wahern 10y agoAs far we know CIA analysts absolutely DID NOT believe that Iraq had a nuclear program or significant chemical weapons program. Rather, what the CIA institutionally believed was that it lacked any strong evidence to make an assertion one way or another. The case for the Iraq War was made on the back of a single informant, an informant that most Western intelligence agencies (including Israel) believed not particularly credible. The CIA also, initially, didn't believe that informant very credible. However, Cheney & Co went hunting for evidence, dredged it up, packaged it, and sold it as a "slam dunk" to the previously incredulous Secretary of State Colin Powell and CIA Director George Tenet. It's only by dint of Tenet being Director can we say that the CIA believed the justification behind the Iraq War.
- caf 10y agoIf anyone is looking for more information, the informant referred to here is an Iraqi-German known as Curveball.