[kellychaos]

There was a female army colonel (can't remember her name right off) who worked in intelligence at the Pentagon on an MSNBC interview show last Sunday. From the way she explained it, every country has a dedicated group assigned to constantly make and amend invasion plans and contingency plans based on real time changes in intelligence. She claimed the size of the group covering Iraq increased about five-fold after Bush came into office for virtually no reason that could be based on incoming intelligence. She also claimed that the war was, more or less, engineered to happen. It was pretty much like you're saying, Max. Collect the intelligence that supports the effort and discard the rest. In other words, they were more or less looking for a reason that would be compelling, or threatening enough for American citizens to condone war. I only caught the show briefly and can't remember the colonel's name (I believe it started with a "K" and was a Polish or Russian name) or that of the show.