Oh, it gets better... Who really backed the Ba’ath Party in Iraq leading to Saddam? Who gave Saddam chemical weapons to begin with to be used on mass murdering Iranian civilians?  At one point Donald Rumsfeld considered running for the office of the President, when asked what would qualify him to do so he said his close ties to Saddam Hussein.  Check out this article by The New Yorker by Seymour M. Hersh 04, 2003. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/05/12/selective-intelligence They call themselves, self-mockingly, the Cabal—a small cluster of policy advisers and analysts now based in the Pentagon’s Office of Special Plans. In the past year, according to former and present Bush Administration officials, their operation, which was conceived by Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Secretary of Defense, has brought about a crucial change of direction in the American intelligence community. These advisers and analysts, who began their work in the days after September 11, 2001, have produced a skein of intelligence reviews that have helped to shape public opinion and American policy toward Iraq. It’s always been hidden in plain sight...