But in the wake of this conflict, we should ask ourselves whether we have made the mistake of believing our own propaganda, and whether we have been fighting the war on terror against the wrong enemies, in the wrong places, with the wrong weapons.

the CIA and other agencies objected vigorously to a Bush administration assessment of the threat of Syria's weapons of mass destruction that was to be presented Tuesday on Capitol Hill.

"David Hicks, 27, is one of six people in the first group to face new military tribunals established by President Bush after the Sept. 11 attacks. Two are Britons, while the identities and nationalities of the other three have not been disclosed. "
firstly its odd that as ive mentined before, that 50% of these 6 are from the strongest 'allies' - but its not obvious to me why these 3 haev had their nationalty disclosed, but the other 3 havent...?

"And the lies, the flagrant GOP bitch slappings of the American public, the maniacal jabs straight in eye of truth with the icepick of utter BS, have just reached some sort of critical mass, some sort of saturation point of absurdity and pain and ridiculousness and you just have to stand up and applaud. "

This week a limp and stumbling Mr Bush managed to make the ludicrous claim that he only decided on war after he "gave Saddam Hussein a chance to allow the inspectors in and he wouldn't let them"

As Groucho Marx asked: "Who are you going to believe - me, or your own two eyes?"

Wilson caused problems for the White House, and his wife was outed as an undercover CIA officer. That would seem to mean that the Bush administration has screwed one of its own top-secret operatives in order to punish Wilson or to send a message to others who might challenge it.

The Pentagon Papers -- the U.S. government's secret, internal history of the Vietnam War -- demonstrated that the CIA thought that the war was unwinnable and that its ''intelligence'' was routinely discounted or ignored by policymakers determined to win the war.

The French secret service is believed to have refused to allow Britain's MI6 to give the United States "credible" intelligence showing that Iraq was trying to buy uranium ore from Niger, U.S. intelligence sources said yesterday.

They dismissed a report from a former U.S. diplomat who was sent to Niger to investigate the claims and rejected them.

General John Abizaid says his troops need to understand what they are fighting for.