# Aid and Comfort

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aid-and-comfort/330561>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [November 11, 2005, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aid-and-comfort/330561 "2005-11-11T11:31:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![rjung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/45deac/32.png) [@rjung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rjung)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aid-and-comfort/330561/41 "2005-11-12T01:00:28Z")

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> [@Squink](#):
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> [Sixteen Words from Bush:](http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/11/international/middleeast/11cnd-bush.html?hp&ex=1131771600&en=80f33f18ca70c64d&ei=5094&partner=homepage)
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> > a bipartisan Senate investigation found no evidence of political pressure to change the intelligence community’s judgments

Of course not, considering that the answer to whether there was political pressure was **left to phase II of the investigation and was not addressed in the report.** What phase 1 _did_ find, however, is that there was _lots_ of evidence that the intelligence _was_ changed – they just didn’t resolve _where_ the pressure was coming from.

> [@Senate Intelligence Committee report](#):
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> The intelligence community’s elimination of the caveats from the unclassified white paper _misrepresented their judgments_ to the public, which did not have access to the classified National Intelligence Estimate containing the more carefully worded assessments.

[Lots more here.](http://thinkprogress.org/2005/11/11/what-the-senate-intel-commitee-found-bush-admin-manipulated-case-for-war/)

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**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aid-and-comfort/330561/42 "2005-11-12T02:11:41Z")

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> [@What the .... ?!?!](#):
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> Then let’s say we have someone that says, “This war is wrong because I believe that GWB got a check from Halliburton the day after he started it for $10 million.”

Nobody believes that. We all know it was Cheney who got the $10 mil.

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aid-and-comfort/330561/43 "2005-11-12T07:27:43Z")

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> [@Der Trihs](#):
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> Isn’t that largely different people ? It’s not like there’s a central command for the resistance, and I would expect patriotism/revenge driven fighters to target troops. Random civilians is what I would expect from the religious fanatics; they are trying to make Allah happy, not win people over.

I don’t know how different it is. I’m sure there are more ‘everyday Iraqis’ attacking only soldiers and more foreigners attacking civilians, but I can only guess at how separate the groups are.

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**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2005, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/aid-and-comfort/330561/44 "2005-11-12T07:30:21Z")

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Particularly because it you’d figure the people who are terrorizing the civilians would also be happy if the soldiers left.

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