George Tenet's Secret Source

Big news this week: It was revealed that the CIA had dealings with Saddam's foreign minister. Basically, for a little while (right around C. Powell's UN speech), the CIA paid him to tell them about WMDs. He told them (and this was a guy who was in Saddam's "inner circle") that Saddam had no significant biological or chemical weapon stockpiles and the only nuclear things he had were dreams. Why didn't they listen to him? Even after these meetings, the figures the public saw painted Iraq as one big WMD warehouse. Pressure from the White House?
This is just more proof that the administration had no real reason to invade Iraq. Think about, they've "flip-flopped" more on Iraq than they say John Kerry of. First, Saddam had vast amounts of weapons (and probably nukes) that he was going to either use directly against the U.S., or sell to his home-boy Osama (who would also use them on us). After it became clear there were no WMDs or terrorist connections, they insisted that we just hadn't found them. After a couple years, they admitted there probably weren't WMDs or terrorist connections, then they blamed the CIA and a few other scapegoats. But bringing democracy to the middle east and making the area more stable was a worthy goal. Yes, in fact, W had said so right from the start when justifying his war.
W just has it in for some people.