Who knew what about Iraq, and when?

Since there is alot of dissention and discussion over who knew what, and when they knew it, lets see if we can clarify what everyone had. BTW, all my facts will be documented and not just conjecture or vague platitudes.

First of all, lets go to fackcheck to see who is right about supposedly Bush slanting the intelligence. A NIE (National Intelligence Estimate) was requested by the Senate and then the entire Congress, ie both houses, recieved this NIE on Iraq in October 2002. This estimate was prepared by the CIA and had all the intelligence on Iraq that anyone, including the president, saw at the time. It expressed what all the different agencies thought about the the WMDs claim and their opinion on the probabliity. Note: this is the same document that i pointed out only 6 of 100 Senators actually read.

Factcheck

Prominant Democrats, including John Kerry, have said they believe that the administration intentionally lied even though the evidence from intelligence agencies shows this not to be the case as pointed out in 2 sepearate Intelligence inquires done by bipartisan commissions.

John Kerrys Interview

Here is another. This is a critiquing of an ad by a liberal group coalition. Factcheck puts the quotes from Bush and other prominant poiticians into context and gives the background.

Factcheck

Next refers to the Joe Wilson story. Many people think that the report he gave lent no credence to the nuclear claim. A senate commitee disagreed in their investigation after his report and testimony. Also we see that the claim that Iraq sought Yellowcake did not come from the CIA but the British who have not retracted or modified that position.

Transterrestrial Archive

It is also true that Iraq did not live up to its agreement that they would prove they did not have, reseach, or possess components of WMDs. Note: UN resolutions dictate that the UN did not have to prove he had them for him to be in violation. He had to prove he didn't.

This shows what Iraq was doing against the UN:

Iraq History

The UN resolution:
UN Resolution 1441

So that is the facts laid out about who knew what, and when, and what the sources are. To say that any intelligent person knew there was no WMDs is an absurd claim because nobody KNEW it. Some people did think that but all the evidence pointed to there being WMDs so they simply were guessing and doubting a perponderence of evidence.