Washington -- Bush officials used Sunday's talk shows to shrug off criticism about the decision to go to war with Iraq.
Security adviser Condoleezza Rice said the administration had relied on an "enrichment" of 5-year-old intelligence, and that this was perfectly normal.
When asked what the hell “enrichment" meant in intelligence terms, Rice explained: "It's like vitamin enriched Rice crispies... It's all puffed up, blown out of proportion, expanded with hot air...".
And though none of the claims made in the intelligence reports leading up to the war have turned out to be true, Bush officials are still claiming that the intelligence was good and that they were right to follow it.
"Just because there aren't actually any weapons of mass destruction doesn't mean that reports of their inexistence were incorrect as such..." Colin Powel told CNN's late edition. "I still think that the intelligence we received was very intelligent, even if it may actually appear at times to be quite dumb, and anyone who says that the decision to invade Iraq to remove their weapons of mass destruction was wrong, simply because there aren’t any, is clearly even dumber...
He went on to say that America sleeps more soundly because of the invasion. "At least this way we know that if they had existed then they would have been removed by now."
