Originally Posted by kerry edwards

Since many of this administrations advocates for war with Iraq had laid out their plans to attack Iraq in the Project for the New American Century, long before they ever came to power, it is clear to me that whatever 'intelligence' they used to justify the invasion was basically propaganda. If they were honest, they would have presented the American people with their vision of US imperialism and let the electorate decide whether an American Empire was in their interests or not, rather than attempting to scare the populace with images of Hussein bombing the US.
Their deceitfulness lies not so much in their use/misuse of intelligence as in their unwillingness to be forthcoming about their vision of the global future.