Bush to Seek Intelligence Failures Probe: "'We need to open this up in a very nonpartisan, outside commission, to see where we are,' Hagel said. The issue is not just shortcomings of U.S. intelligence, he said, but 'the credibility of who we are around the world and the trust of our government and our leaders.' "

Not only has the Bush administration revealed its callow motives, undermined our relations with the rest of the world and destabilized the international order--making US citizens less safe almost everywhere in the world--but get this: the UN inspections disarmed Hussein!

Yes, the same UN that the hardliners rubbished and ridiculed. The same UN which Bush said he was defending by invading Iraq. Wrong! Those softliner UN inspectors defanged Hussein years before Bush was appointed President. How are they going to spin that one, those hateful UN haters? UN sanctions, inspections disarmed Iraq: UN nuclear watchdog: "UN sanctions against Iraq and weapons inspections 'disarmed' former President Saddam Hussein's regime, the UN's chief nuclear weapons inspector said in a magazine interview.
'I think the sanctions worked, and more importantly, the inspections worked,' Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), told Newsweek. 'A combination of sanctions and inspections managed to disarm Iraq.' "
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