And still more lies of omission

lest we forget the conclusions from this report:

"We conclude that the Intelligence Community was dead wrong in almost all of its pre-war judgments about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. This was a major intelligence failure. Its prinicpal causes were the Intelligence Community's inability to collect good information about Iraq's WMD programs, serious errors in analyzing what information it could gather, and a failure to make clear just how much of its analysis was based on assumptions, rather than good evidence. On a matter of this importance, we simply cannot afford failures of this magnitude.

After a thorough review, the Commission found no indication that the Intelligence Community distorted the evidence regarding Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. What the intelligence professionals told you about Saddam Hussein's programs was what they believed. They were simply wrong. (emphases mine)

Nowhere to be found in the report was any indication that Bush nor any other administration member coerced CIA operatives to give bad intel, or that Bush even asked that they give intel favorable to the war effort.

Heck, the deafening silence is evident even with regard to the 500 tons of uranium that were found in Iraq.

But if you tell a lie often enough...