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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.
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When it is the policy of a country to do something any administration will lay out a plan to achieve it well before they come to power. If the objective is military the DoD will plan for it. This is why I'm sure they have detailed plans for just about every military contigency that could befall this country. Iraq was just that sort of thing. Do you think that we have detailed plans for the invasion of Iran or North Korea? In any case, the national policy according to the Iraq Liberation Act of 1998 was to overthrow Saddam; of course they had plans for it, so did Clinton. The act was unanimously supported in both houses of Congress - even by the Reps and Senetors who claim Iraq was no threat to us today - neat trick that, since that means Bush would have been manipulating data as the Governor of Texas. Clinton's quote at the bottom of the page is from an address he gave in support of the ILA.
As for "their vision of the global future", it seemed quite clear to me that post 9/11 they were shooting for democracy worldwide and confrontation of any terrorism (not just Al-Qaida). They were as clear in their discussion of how to achieve it as Roosevelt was in 1941.