Well, a new comprehensive 600+ page report was released on why the intelligence on Iraq's WMDs was so off. shrub reluctantly agreed to create this commission to look into it. Well today that report was released.

Bush Panel: Spies in Dark About Threats

"A damning report by a presidential commission concluded Thursday that the United States knows 'disturbingly little' about nuclear and biological threats from dangerous adversaries, years after the Sept. 11 attacks and the nation's intelligence missteps on Iraqi weapons.

Urging dramatic changes in the U.S. spy agencies, the commission called crucial intelligence judgments on Iraq 'dead wrong' and said the flaws it found 'are still all too common.'"

So now the question is, where does that leave us now? If we can't rely on our intelligence how in the WORLD can shrub's policy of preemption be the United States's ongoing policy?

"Robb and Silberman [Commisioners] said they found no evidence that senior Bush administration officials sought to change the prewar intelligence in Iraq. The report was silent on whether the administration manipulated the data for political purposes, as Democrats have contended, with commission members saying they were not empowered to examine that."

Well WHY weren't they empowered to examine whether this administration manipulated the intelligence for political purposes?! Seems that is the central question to me. And I think most of us know the answer to that one. Even some of my republican friends. See the problem here folks is the Republicans are in OVERWHELMING power right now. Yes I said it, overwhelming power. They are dictating everything. Tomorrow I will address this further.

I'll leave this discussion with one final chilling quote from the report:

"'Across the board, the intelligence community knows disturbingly little about the nuclear programs of many of the world's most dangerous actors,' the report said. 'In some cases, it knows less now than it did five or ten years ago.'"