> It turns out they didn't secretly have reliable information And more to the point, they knew exactly what their information was worth. A document known as th

> It turns out they didn't secretly have reliable information And more to the point, they knew exactly what their information was worth. A document known as the "Downing Street Memo" is pretty blunt on that: "intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." (From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_Street_memo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_Street_memo , http://downingstreetmemo.com/memos.html http://downingstreetmemo.com/memos.html) We're not talking about any random document either. It was, in effect, the executive summary of the pre-Iraq war situation, given to the prime minister of UK by his private secretary.