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Originally Posted by barney-fife";p="
BTW, using phrases like "cherry-picked" intelligence is, as we all know, a lie. It only further discredits your argument.
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1. Aluminum tubes. You know, the ones Powell claimed were intended for nuclear centrifuges, despite the fact that they were the wrong size and strength for that and precisely the right size and shape for artillery casings -- facts that were included in the initial reports on the tubes but ignored by the administration.
2. That was not the only example of taking nebulous intelligence, stripping out all the caveats and presenting them as fact;
3. Using years-old intelligence as the basis for a suddenly "urgent" threat from Iraq.
I think "cherry-picked" pretty much sums it up.