Today’s Wall Street Journal reports:
Just how “correct” the pre-war intell was on post-Saddam Iraq is a good question, but for the sake of argument let’s assume it was accurate. Rockefeller claims it was and “regrets” the White House “paid little attention” to it at the time. Let’s get this straight. The White House should have paid more attention to the post-Iraq assessments produced in 2002-3, but less attention to the same community’s assessments on Saddam’s nuclear, chemical and biological programs — judgments that Saddam was in massive violation of his international disarmament obligations. One other thing: here’s an assessment of the consequences had we left Saddam in power the vice chairman of the non-partisan Select Committee on Intelligence may want to review
