Bush has admitted to the declassification of parts of the pre-war intelligence:

Bush acknowledges declassifying Iraq intelligence

President George W. Bush acknowledged on Monday he ordered the declassification of parts of a prewar intelligence report on Iraq to respond to critics.

But Bush said he could not comment on an assertion that he authorized Vice President Dick Cheney’s former top aide, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, to release the information to reporters. Libby is accused of obstruction of justice and perjury in an investigation designed to discover who leaked the name of a CIA operative.

“I will say this, that after we liberated Iraq, there was questions in peoples’ minds about, you know, the basis upon which I made statements, in other words, going into Iraq,” Bush said in his first words on the subject since it flared up last week.

Answering questions after a speech, Bush said he declassified an October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate in July 2003 for a reason.

“I wanted people to see what some of those statements were based on. I wanted people to see the truth. I thought it made sense for people to see the truth. That’s why I declassified the document,” he said.

Now the important questions must be asked by Congress – mainly “why was this part declassified and not the part that proved the allegations against Iraq false”. While this might make the leak look a little more legal it makes the war look a lot more illegal. That is the important thing to remember here. Bush continuously went through great lengths to sell a war that was based on bad intelligence.

Bush accepted responsibility for that bad intelligence around the same time he declassified this information. With his accepting responsibility and shielding the public from the actual truth he has effectively mislead Congress, the Military and the People of this country. This misleading has lead to over 2300 soldiers dead, billions of money lost and a bigger threat to our nation. If there is any better reason to impeach and then file criminal charges would someone tell me?