Channeling INC Propaganda

"U.S. intelligence officials have concluded that almost all of the Iraqi defectors whose information helped make the Bush administration's case against Saddam Hussein exaggerated what they knew, fabricated tales or were 'coached' by others on what to say," report Warren Strobel and Jonathan Landay of Knight-Ridder.

Of course, Wolfowitz and Cheney are likely to have been the ringleaders of the coaching initiative.

It's also worth pointing out that there was plenty of intelligence on Iraq, predominantly gathered by the CIA and not the Pentagon, that did not support the conclusion that Iraq was a substantial threat to the United States. This info, since it did not fit the script, was conveniently brushed to the side and scrubbed from prominent speeches by administration officials.