The CIA told the White House "what they believed" and this boils down to paranoia on their part. No matter what the UN or anybody else said, the US was going to find out for themselves, in their own way, come hell or high water, what was going on over in Iraq. I want to know, now that there is nothing there, who is going to pay for this massive gaff?

If this was any other country that did this the US would be all over them like a cheap suit, pointing it's big, holier than thou, finger at them but since the US has done this themselves they no doubt will sweep it under the rug like it's no big deal.

This kind of thing falls under foreign policy which is what pisses the rest of the world off about the US. Then the American people wonder why it is that they are so unpopular with the rest of the world.

Just because you have the most to lose doesn't give you the right to treat the rest of the world like shit.