Dead Wrong

No shit. 1600 US troops dead wrong, as many as 100,000 Iraqi civilians dead wrong.

ABC News reports on a presidential commission's report about pre-Iraq war intelligence:

U.S. intelligence on Iraq was "dead wrong" in almost all cases before the Iraq war and flaws are still all too common throughout an American spy community that requires a major overhaul, a presidential commission reported on Thursday.

The commission's report, ordered by President Bush after he launched the Iraq war two years ago based on intelligence about its weapons programs that proved to be false, said the harm done to American credibility "will take years to undo."

"We conclude that the intelligence community was dead wrong in almost all of its prewar judgments about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction," the commissioners wrote.

However, the commission's report, if you ask me, is dead wrong too:

Bush, accused of hyping the intelligence on Iraq in order to pursue a costly war with a deadly aftermath, and his inner circle escaped direct blame.

The commission said it found no evidence that the White House or the Pentagon put political pressure on analysts to color the intelligence to back up their claims.

That's not what other people think.