Hah...not really...but here's an memo to Bush from the Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity offering a little advice re: the upcoming State of the Union address.
http://www.tompaine.com/feature2.cfm/ID/9758
Read the article...it makes me wonder why Bush isn't being impeached right now.
Below, find one section from the article.
Hussein Kamel Also Said: the Full Story
But we were being told only half the story. Consider, for example, the information provided by Hussein Kamel, Saddam Hussein's son-in-law, who defected in August 1995. He is the defector you quoted in the key speech you made on Oct. 7, 2002, the speech that gave great impetus to the successful attempt to persuade Congress just four days later to cede to you its power to declare war.
Referring correctly to Kamel as "the head of Iraq's military industries," you noted that his defection forced Baghdad to admit to having produced "deadly biological agents."
Kamel had already been extolled as defector par excellence. In his scene-setter-for-war speech of August 26, 2002, Vice President Cheney singled out Kamel "as a reminder to all that we often learned more as the result of defections than we learned from the inspection regime itself."
The vice president spoke truth in underscoring the value of the first-hand information provided by Kamel. But it was half-truth, of the kind we warned you about before the war--for example, in our 2002 memorandum "Forgery, Hyperbole, Half-Truth: A Problem." There we noted that: "Kamel also said that in 1991 Iraq destroyed all its chemical and biological weapons and the missiles to deliver them."
That part of the debriefing was suppressed until Newsweek disclosed it on Feb. 24, 2003, several weeks before the war. On the day the Newsweek report appeared, CIA spokesman Bill Harlow pulled out his entire tray of deprecatory adjectives, branding it "incorrect, bogus, wrong, untrue." But a few days later when the official transcript of the Kamel debriefing (originally classified UNSCOM/IAEA SENSITIVE) was made available to the press, there on page 13 was Kamel stating categorically:
"I ordered destruction of all chemical weapons. All weapons--biological, chemical, missile, nuclear--were destroyed."
The rest of the information that Kamel provided about major WMD programs, many of them undetected before his debriefing, proved to be accurate. Understandably, his assurances that he had decided to "disclose everything" required confirmation, but it is odd that those assurances were totally suppressed--particularly since so much of what he said had already proved true.
Confirmation has now come in two very persuasive ways. First, none of the weaponry that Kamel said was destroyed at his order has been found. Second, documentary evidence corroborating Kamel's testimony has now come to light.
In a lengthy Washington Post article on January 7, "Iraq Arsenal Was Only on Paper," Barton Gelman reported he had acquired a handwritten letter written to Saddam Hussein's son Qusay five days after Kamel's defection.
The writer was Hossam Amin, director of the key Iraqi office overseeing U.N. inspectors. The letter was essentially a damage report warning that after Kamel's defection the cover stories masking forbidden weapons were no longer sustainable. Considered together with the subsequent findings of the U.N. inspectors who pursued every item in Amin's catalogue, the letter shows that Iraq had in fact destroyed its entire inventory of biological weapons during the summer of 1991, before the U.N. inspectors even knew of their existence.
You will recall that in September 2002, when your administration mounted a full-court press to make the case for war in Congress, the Defense Intelligence Agency published a dissonant report which, had it not also been suppressed, might have caused a game-losing turnover. The DIA report asserted that there was no reliable evidence that Iraq possessed or was producing chemical or biological weapons.
DIA specialists had read and evaluated the Kamel debriefing reports as well as the other available evidence on this issue. To their credit, even lacking the documentary confirmation now provided by the Amin letter, DIA analysts apparently decided that, since most of what Kamel said had proven accurate, it would be less than honest to simply ignore his important claim that chemical and biological weapons had been destroyed at his order.
This did not prevent your advisers from inserting into your important speech of Oct. 7, 2002 an alarming passage exaggerating what Kamel said about biological agents and omitting altogether what he said about having had them all destroyed:
"In 1995, after several years of deceit by the Iraqi regime, the head of Iraq's military industries defected. It was then that the regime was forced to admit that it had produced more than 30,000 liters of anthrax and other deadly biological agents. The inspectors, however, concluded that Iraq had likely produced two to four times that amount. This is a massive stockpile of biological weapons that has never been accounted for, and capable of killing millions."
Your State of the Union address last year reiterated those claims. And a week later, in his U.N. speech of Feb. 5, 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell emphasized that it was only after Kamel's defection that Iraq finally admitted that "it had produced four tons of the deadly nerve agent, VX. A single drop of VX on the skin will kill in minutes." Powell, too, neglected to mention that Kamel had also said that such stocks had been destroyed. Nor did he mention that in the six and a half years following Kamel's debriefing the United States had turned up no evidence challenging his testimony.
It is important that you be completely clear on timing. While the Newsweek report of February 24, 2003 was the first to publicize Kamel's testimony that the weapons had been destroyed, U.S. and British intelligence (as well as U.N. officials) had had that information since August 1995. If you were not given a full account of what Kamel said before it appeared in Newsweek, your advisers should certainly have given you the whole truth when Newsweek did break the story three weeks before you sent U.S. troops into Iraq to destroy those same weapons. If they did not tell you, heads should roll. If they did, it becomes necessary to explain why the information from Kamel had no apparent effect on your decision to launch the invasion.