Wes Clark responds to Bush on Fox

General Clark on Fox & Friends, Nov. 12, 8:15 am:

I was one of many people who had seen previous intelligence that said the best judgment of the intelligence community was there might be weapons of mass destruction, some materials were unaccounted for.

But the talk about mushroom clouds that Secretary Cheney was certain they were going to get a nuclear device fairly soon and so forth; it was irresponsible, it was ungrounded in the facts and the Congress that voted on the resolution never had the chance to see all the dissenting opinions within the intelligence community so I think there's a lot to be looked at here.

I think strategically, though, we can see now, four years after 9/11, that going into Iraq in a way to fight the war on terror was a strategic blunder. Al Qaeda...is in Iraq right now because there is not strong control over Iraq.

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[The Silberman/Robb Commission] never looked at whether the administration distorted the information that was available in its approach to the public...[T]hey specifically said they weren't authorized to do that. That's what has to be looked at by this...Senate committee and they haven't done so.