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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Wrong assertions
	Date:	3/14/2009 9:11:05 AM

Architect: you need to be bring facts and not baseless assertions to the forum because you will be challenged. You have to get your news from somewhere other than the daily kos or huffington post, otherwise you will be skewered for making false statements. A number of liberal posters have long since gone away because every time they made a baseless, factually incorrect statement to support their failed ideology they were corrected with the truth. They simply could not compete in the arena of ideas.

For example, and I quote you, "We now know the intell was cooked and cherry picked to justify a questionable war which took our concentration off the real culprets."

This is a false statement. The Senate Intelligence Committee studied in great detail the lead up to the war and concluded that it was a monumental intelligence failure. Some of their conclusions that directly refute your baseless allegation:

"The Committee did not find any evidence that Administration officials attempted to coerce, influence or pressure analysts to change their judgments related to Iraq's WMD capabilities."

"The Committee found no evidence that the Vice Presiden't visits to the CIA were attempts to pressure analysts, were perceived as intended to pressure analysts by those who participated in the briefings on Iraq's WMD programs, or did pressure analysts to change their assessments."

"The Committee found none of the analysts or other people interviewed by the Committee said that they were pressured to change their conclusions related to Iraq's links to terrorism."

This report was signed off by both Democrat and Republican members and the investigation was lead by a bipartisan committee. I could also take exception to some of your other comments with a factual rebuttal but I have already demonstrated that your are either ill informed (which means you only get your information from the mainstream media or netroots) or so partisan that any truth that doesn't comport with your ideology must be ignored.