military power could so the worst of these offenders who would be ahmed chalabi who is been in exile for his own country for twenty to thirty years and is clearly not a hero under any definition of heroism to his own people sold the pentagon on the idea that saddam hussein did have weapons of mass destruction and he must be stopped but they were bringing forward individuals who they claimed right or high level military or scientists with access they were looking for money first of august child he was paying money senior members of the department of defense gave him their thumbs up his information was coming into the white house to people like dick cheney through the office of special plans so it was coming in through and through an avenue that's not traditional to the intelligence community and wasn't open to being vetted or reviewed and you had challah himself admit that he they didn't mind providing false information because it helped them to achieve their goal of removing saddam know the. iraq will defend that regime. including the military both the regular army and the republican