Ray McGovern @ Consortiumnews - An important back story of the Iraq War disaster has been the Bush administration's success in manipulating and/or ignoring intelligence that didn't fit with preordained decisions.

Often the concept of objective intelligence was turned on its head. Instead of carefully analyzed facts guiding the decision-making, the decisions came first and the intelligence was then shaped into propaganda themes to get the American people to go along.

In this guest essay, former CIA analsyt Ray McGovern says the Bush administration has now chosen to make the decisions on escalating the Iraq War with no intelligence at all. Read it all @ Consortiumnews