Attack the CIA

Maybe instead of attacking Iraq, we should have attacked the CIA.

The near-final report of the Iraq Survey Group concludes that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction. It says all of Iraq's banned weapons had been "essentially destroyed" a decade-plus before we invaded. Charles Duelfer's ISG report to Congress says Iraq had no long-range cruise missiles, no biological weapons plants. Its ability to make banned weapons was significantly less in 2003 than in 1991.

We have been told that the US believed the opposite of all that, because of our intelligence agencies.

The CIA and DIA and the rest remind me of one of the comic skits by the Firesign Theater entitled Everything We Know Is Wrong.

The more we look at it, everything the US thought it knew about Iraq was wrong.

We could have saved so very much by focusing attention on improving our own bedraggled intel operations, rather than invading - uh, liberating - Iraq.

Brad Messer commentary— KTSA.